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>I have never deeply studied this issue but I imagine that it had something to do with their hyper inflation in the 20’s and I'm sure it didn't hurt to get things like the Rein Ruhr industrial center back from France by walking into it. I know that they just stopped paying their WWI debt obligations also so yes National Socialism played a part.

The Rein Ruhr industrial was back in German hands by 1925. Germany just wasn't allowed to station troops there, but it was fully in German control otherwise.

Germany instituted one of the most protectionist trade schemes ever done in an industrialized nation and the depression was over by 1935. Again, why did the great depression end in Germany but drag on forever in America and the UK? It wasn't protectionism, it was the elimination of the debt bubble.

" It wasn't protectionism, it was the elimination of the debt bubble."

Of course that debt bubble wasn't eliminated at all by the hyper inflation that went on in Germany. Thus eliminating the debt by the government paying pennies on the marks they originally borrowed. Please! It wasn't trade protectionist policies that ended it that's for sure! It was just eliminating people's (mostly German citizens but also any foreign investors) wealth because they got less buying power back on their original investments. The German government (Weimar Republic) wiped out peoples savings.