How did the beginning of the Great Depression alter the economic, social & political conditions in Germany?

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[Laurence]

The Great Depression affected the whole world. Almost everwhere each population blamed its government and changed it, either by election (the USA and the UK) or by revolution (Brazil, Spain, Argentina), replacing conservative governmenrts by leftist ones (the USA; Brazil) or if those in power were leftists, then by conservative ones (the UK, Argentina, Japan). The only countries where governments stayed in power were those that had already had their revolution and had in the process acquired firm dictatorships with the power and ruthlessness to survive (Mexico, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, Russia). Almost every government reacted to the economic downturn by protecting its own industries. Everyone raised tarrifs, dealing a bodyblow to international trade. America had a large enough domestic market not to be too affected by this. Even Britain could turn to Imperial preference (i.e. free trade within its still vast empire). Japan decided to create its own exclusive oversea market by invading China. Brazil discovered it could replace its dependence on exporting coffee to pay for its manufactured imports by creating its own manufacturing industry. But none of these solutions was possible for Germany.
Germany had suffered a "Carthaginian" peace in 1919, followed by a very "progressive" regime which disgusted traditional Germans by its tolerance (particularly in artistic and sexual behaviour) and, by using inflation to solve the terrible fiscal situation resulting from the war, bankrupted, and so alienated, the middle class. As a major exporting economy it was a major victim of the closing down of world trade, making it suffer more than any other major power, particularly from the consequent mass unemployment. The result was a natural repudiation of Weimar and all its works (freedom, democracy, fiscal "irresponsibility"...). The nationalists turned the blame on the Jews (who were prominent in the world Communist movement and in Germany's left wing politics, in the media, in the arts, in the more modern sector of the retail trade, and in modern intellectual and scientific ideas: in everything in fact that the more traditional Germans disapproved of. The lower classes blamed the old elites (another significant object of hatred in the platform of the "National Socialist German Workers' Party"). But this old elite, which still effectively ran things behind the scenes, thought it could tame this rabble rousing "Nazi" party and use it as a front behind which to continue to stay in power, But Hitler outsmarted them, and soon after becoming chancellor used the fire in the Parliament building to scare most of its members into giving him emergency powers (rather like Bush used 9/11). He then got rid of his more socially radical followers in the Night of the Long Knives to make his regime more acceptable to the army and to his big business backers. With a Britain and France still traumatized by their losses (in blood and treasure) of WWI, Hitler found he could improve his position even more by an agressive foreign policy backed by a military build up, while improving Germany's foreign trade through ingenious schemes that substituted barter for money, converting almost all trade into strictly bilateral dealing