For those who don't know what the "Greece" problem in Europe is about - here's the explanation

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32. I would never disparage social history and its various media (such as oral

histories), but I think any honest assessment of the causes for Hitler's rise would place anti-semitism and its appeal to the German middle and working class far above any direct macroeconomic cause. Anti-semitism could and did take root and sway large numbers of the German electorate because the economic situation in Germany was so fragile. But the fact remains that, even at the high point of its electoral arc, the Nazi Party never received more than roughly 33% of the vote in any free and fair parliamentary election. The Nazi Party only came to power because of the connivance and complicity of other power brokers on the German political scene. For example, Von Papen thought he and his party could 'control' and 'co-opt' Hitler, once Hitler held the Chancellorship, thus explaining Van Papen's deal with the Devil. We probably will never know exactly what the quasi-senile Hindenburg thought in agreeing to appoint Hitler Chancellor.

FWIW, my views on the causes of Hitler's rise to power are largely informed by the work of William Shirer, among others. Shirer lived and worked in Germany during Weimar and the early 30s and saw much of what he writes about at first hand.