Hitler's rise to power, and most importantly, the almost instantaneous economic growth of Germany and the country's arms buildup that followed, look like a miracle.
Before Hitler
In 1929, Germany (like some other European powers and the United States) was in a state of real economic collapse. This is the year the Great Depression began.
The inflation in the country was such that working citizens were paid almost daily. Money depreciated almost hourly. The amount set aside for a lunchtime snack had to be spent in the morning, because after lunch there was not enough of it for food. The population was starving. The country was in a disastrous position.
There was no question of any army, because people simply had nothing to live on. The exchange rate looked something like this: 1 dollar = 3 million Deutschmarks (before the war, this ratio was like this: 1 dollar = 4 marks). In addition to everything, Germany, according to the Treaty of Versailles, paid extortionate reparations to the victorious countries of the First World War.
Unexpected economic growth
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In 1933, Hitler came to power with his "brilliant economic reform." The Fuehrer of the German National Socialists, who served as a common corporal during the First World War and graduated from high school with two-three, could hardly have been such an economic genius as to lift an entire country from its knees in a few years.
The budget of Germany, which before his coming to power was called the Weimar Republic, did not have money even for the elementary things, let alone for building up military power. At the same time, Adolf Hitler increased his army more than 40 times in several years: from one hundred thousand in 1933 to 4.2 million people on the eve of the war.
At the same time, roads, sanatoriums, factories that produced weapons and equipment were built in Germany. All this required huge amounts of money. Neither the National Socialist Party nor Hitler himself had that kind of money. According to the official version, it was sponsored by German industrialists. But how could German corporations get so much free money in a year of economic decline?
The impetuous political career of an unknown corporal
Hitler himself, before coming to power, lived in Germany "as a bird." He was a citizen of Austria and did not have German citizenship. At any moment he could simply be expelled from the country. Literally six months before the elections, the head of the National Socialists receives German citizenship and takes part in these very elections. His party comes to power despite the fact that it did not even get the required 51% during the voting.
Another interesting detail: shortly before the elections, the government changed some points of the law, which made it possible to proclaim Adolf Hitler the Reich Chancellor of Germany without the notorious victory of his party in the elections. Some powerful and very wealthy sponsors supported the Fuhrer not only with huge amounts of money. They also exerted the necessary pressure on the major political figures on whom his political victory depended.
The former Weimar Republic eventually became the Third Reich. Hitler almost immediately issued a decree "On the Protection of the German People", proclaimed his goal to conquer "a new living space" for the Germans and began to intensively prepare for war.
Who benefits from it
On the question of who benefited from his coming to power, one episode that took place at the Nuremberg trials is very indicative. When interrogated Hjalmar Schacht, the former president of the German Reichsbank, he turned to an American lawyer with the words: "If you (that is, the United States) want to accuse the industrialists who armed Nazi Germany, you will have to indict yourself."
On the eve and during the war, the Opel car plant produced only military equipment, and General Motors owned it. Trade operations with Germany until the very end of the war were conducted by another American company - "ITT". Concern "Ford" actively manufactured products in the French occupied by the Germans. "Ford" was especially patronized by Goering himself.
Even Coca-Cola opened a production facility for Fanta in Nazi Germany. Many other American industrial "whales" (Chrysler, General Electric, Standard Oil, etc.) also invested in German industry. First, Hitler's party, and then the Third Reich he created, went through Swiss banks and British intermediaries. Yarmal Schacht personally negotiated with American industrialists in the 1930s.
After testifying Schacht, a very ambiguous picture emerged. According to him, it turned out that large industrialists in the United States, with the participation of British bankers, sponsored World War II in order to protect themselves from the main threat - Bolshevism. Economic interests also played an important role, because thanks to Nazi Germany, a new sales market opened in Europe. As you know, Yarmal Schacht was acquitted at the Nuremberg trial.