oct 1, 1929 - Wall Street Crash

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After the failure of his revolution Hitler looked to the ballot box. But despite his own rising profile, in 1928 the Nazis won just 2.6% of the vote.

A resurgent German economy had seen public opinion move to the political centre. When the American stock exchange collapsed, the foreign loans on which Germany's economic recovery relied were called in. Unemployment rose to six million and parties on both the extreme left and right saw support skyrocket. At the same time, Hitler first met a 17-year-old German Catholic girl called Eva Braun.