Widespread bankruptcy and unemployment increased social tension, ultimately making normal democratic politics impossible. In Germany, the epicenter of democracy’s collapse, radicals on both the right and the left raged against the postwar peace settlement and the Versailles Treaty.
两次世界大战之间的经济塌陷之所以难以收拾，是因为它同时是一场社会稳定、民主制度和国际政治秩序的危机。四处蔓延的破产和失业潮加剧了社会矛盾，最终瓦解了正常民主政治的基础。在德国这个民主制大地震的震中，右翼和左翼的激进分子都对凡尔赛合约确立的战后和平体制怒火中烧。