The interwar financial system linked American lending, German reparations, and British and French debt service. The financial crisis disrupted that system and forced governments to default, restructure obligations, and defend their domestic choices. Nazi propaganda converted a complex international breakdown into an antisemitic story that blamed Jewish bankers and the United States for Germany's distress. Economic shocks became political grievances within Hitler's worldview, rather than serving as a mechanical cause of war.
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Interwar finance as a Nazi grievance
The circulation of American credit, German reparations, and Allied war-debt payments became raw material for Nazi economic grievance and antisemitic conspiracy.