I’m sorry to have to point it out, but there’s little connection between your title and contents. It might more appropriately been titled “ How Hitler might have ended up an artist”. The title you used leads a reader to expect a classical historical counterfactual: what were the forces driving Wiemar Germany during the monetary collapse? Would something effectively the same as the Nazi party have arisen? Who might have been a likely firebrand orator?

Wiemar during the collapse is an interesting period. Folks in the US might not know, but we we had a hand in how bad it got there: Through the boom years of the 20s we pushed money at them the way lenders pushed money at unqualified homeowners in the lead up to the great recession, so the market crash and following depression had a much greater effect there than here (and we’ve all seen Great Depression photos showing how bad it got here). People were desperate. On top of that, the judiciary was held over from the Imperial regime, so there were plenty of jurists uninterested in Democratic principles.

I hope you eventually write the article your title promises. It’s not only an interesting period, but there is a lot of source material. Speaking as someone who was more interested in ancient history than modern, it’s like trying to drink from a fire hose.