... would do anything to get back to work. These problems may have been solvable, but the German industry had also suffered greatly as there were less people working to produce. This meant there was less money made in tax for the government to use to improve the situation. The Treaty of Versailles further decreased the government's desperately needed funds as the British, French and Belgians were now even more in want of reparations to help their own struggling economies - by 1932 worldwide industrial production was 38% less than in 1929. Accepting the Treaty had meant a huge loss of pride for Germans, and if it could not even ensure economic security and work for them, many people's feeling about signing the Treaty resurfaced, creating negative views towards the Weimar government. The treaty also prevented Germany from following the example of other European countries in using rearmament as a way to ...

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