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=Germany&world war 1= **World War I** (**WWI** or **WW1**), also known as the **First World War**, was a [|global war] centred in [|Europe] that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. From the time of its occurrence until the approach of [|World War II], it was called simply the **World War** or the **Great War**, and thereafter the First World War or World War I. [|[5]][|[6]][|[7]] In America, it was initially called the **European War**. [|[8]] More than 9 million [|combatants] [|were killed] ; a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. It was [|one of the deadliest conflicts in history], paving the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved. [|[9]]

=**economic &political problems**= Few could laugh at "the macabre joke of inflation," as writer Klaus Mann termed it. "What breathtaking fun it is to watch the world coming off the rails," he wrote in undisguised fascination. Germany was now witnessing "the complete depreciation of the only truly credible value in this godforsaken era: that of money." 

=Nazi party= Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945. Founded in 1919 as the German Workers’ Party, the group promoted German pride and anti-Semitism, and expressed dissatisfaction with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I (1914-1918) and required Germany to make numerous concessions and reparations. Hitler joined the party the year it was founded and became its leader in 1921. In 1933, he became chancellor of Germany and his Nazi government soon assumed dictatorial powers. After Germany’s defeat in World War II (1939-45), the Nazi Party was outlawed and many of its top officials were convicted of war crimes related to the murder of some 6 million European Jews during the Nazis’ reign.