with a gold-backed currency, expanding industry, and world leadership in optics, chemicals, and machinery. The German Mark, the British shilling, the French franc, and the Italian lira all had ...

He abolished price controls at the same moment the Allies introduced a new German currency. This decision, considered by many a disastrous mistake, became instead the foundation of Germany's ...

This was a non-aggression pact that included a secret agreement to divide Poland between the two countries This pact made war virtually inevitable, as it meant the USSR would not oppose a German ...