>>112214695The treaty was not unfair by conventional standards of the time.
It was usual to make the defeated foot the bill for damages of the war. Germanic states had done it, even. Austria-Hungary, also defeated, wasn't even allowed to exist anymore.
The economic plans besides Schacht's for pulling back hyperinflation were all reliant on war. Building war materials on a deficit while lowering taxation and not doing quantitative easing (remember they'd JUST gotten out of a money surplus crisis Zimbabwe-style) only makes sense if you plan on recouping your investment with war, since bullets don't really boost production on their own the way infrastructure and education does.
Also, the guy that ended the Weimar crisis, the aforementioned Schacht, was against rearmement and the nazis put him into a concentration camp because he was part of a conservative resistance (nazis managed to make enemies across the whole spectrum at home).
