MosesZD t1_ja3te1i wrote on February 26, 2023 at 5:16 PM

Keynes predicted the treaty would destroy Germany's economy and usher in hyper-inflation. He then said that could lead to some sort of destabilization of Germany.

You can read your self in his The Economic Consequences of the Peace, published in December, 1919. He didn't predict Nazis. But he did predict it would cause problems.

KaiserNicky t1_ja79m3b wrote on February 27, 2023 at 10:57 AM

And Keynes was wrong. German hyperinflation occurred due to gross mismanagement during the war done by the German government. Germany didn't actually pay hardly anything during the 1920s in terms of reparations but nonetheless complained of its inability to pay while receiving billions in cheap loans which saw its economy show record growth after 1924