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Mao and Hitler's Rise to Power, China, The SS and SA were prominent…

- - - - “…it can be seen that our enemies are all those in league with imperialism--the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big landlord class, and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them”
        This is a speech made by Mao regarding the economic divisions in China. This shows the resentment building in the peasant and working classes during the Warlord Era in China.
        
        Perspective: The peasants felt abandoned and exploited by their government. Resentment was building between the classes. Mao spoke to the peasants, and promised them land reform, medical care, and literacy classes. As a result of this, peasants largely supported Mao.
        
        Perspective: The Warlords, while in power, mainly wanted to gain territory, power and wealth. Very few tried to improve the lives of their people, and they were against the CCP and GMD. The warlords wanted to keep the impoverished in poverty, and maintain their power. The vast majority of the Warlords did not care about the dire social living conditions of peasants, and scoffed at Mao’s talk of revolution.
  - - - Chart showing the cost of living and also the WPI both rising rapidly in the 1920’s showing the hyperinflation
        
        “All Central and Eastern Europe, Allied and enemy alike, and learnt from the lips of the financial representatives of Germany and Austria unanswerable evidence of the terrible exhaustion of their countries, an occasional visit to the hot, dry room in the President's house, where the Four fulfilled their destinies in empty and arid intrigue, only added to the sense of nightmare.”
        This shows the living conditions and extreme poor economic state of Germany. This "nightmare" spread everywhere, and led to German distrust in the government. This caused them to seek more extreme solutions.
        
        Children playing with money as blocks. This demonstrates the extreme inflation taking place, and the worthlessness of money.
        
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        John Maynard Keynes was an economist who wrote a scathing attack on the treaty of Versailles and saw the economic crisis that would emerge after it passed. He foresaw that the economy would collapse and that chaos in german would follow as a result. Which it did and that led to the rise in Nazi Germany and unltimily the Hitler’s authoritarian state.