German newspaper Die Welt compares Eurozone crisis with 1930s
slump that ushered in Hitler By Allan Hall Portrait of a
monster: Adolf Hitler exploited the economic slump of the 1930s
to rise to power A German newspaper has broken a major taboo by
comparing the crisis engulfing the eurozone with the 1930s slump
which ushered in Hitler, the Nazis and WW2. The ghosts of those
times still haunt the modern generation and is illustrated by a
strong aversion to debt, to stock market investing and -
increasingly - a distrust in the euro. Recently, house prices in
Switzerland have begun soaring as wealthy Germans pour their
money into what they hope is a safe haven. Now the country's
conservative daily Die Welt has drawn the parallels between the
crisis and the dark days over 80 years ago. 'The spectre of the
1930s financial crisis that culminated in the rise of Adolf
Hitler’s Nazi party and the Second World War is stalking
Europe,' it said, quoting a Bloomberg News story. In May 1931,
Creditanstalt, founded in Vienna