Adolf Hitler rose to Power in the Weimar Republic (as Germany was called then), which had a number of financial problems, which in turn contributed to people's dissatisfaction and enabled new leaders who promised a lot to seize power. One of the reasons for the financial problems of the Weimar Republic were the WW1 reparations it had to pay to other countries. There reparations were decided in the Treaty of Versailles which the Germans saw as a humiliation and a reason for their financial weakness.