I. The man they chose to promote as a leader in Germany was Adolf Hitler. The conditions that would enable them to bring Hitler to power had already been established by the signing of the Treaty of Versailles that placed impossible reparations demands upon the German government as a result of World War I. British Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, who was a delegate to the conference at Versailles stated that, "this is no peace; this is only a truce for twenty years."* In exactly 20 years (1939) the war began. As a result of the treaty's demands for reparations, (269 billion marks) the German government resorted to inflation of the currency to comply. The resulting inflation (printing of unbacked currency) wiped out the middle class and brought economic collapse to the nation. The extent of this inflation was so great that a pound of butter that cost 3 German marks in 1918 cost six-trillion marks by 1923. Toward the end, 100 million party came to power in Germany. Hitler had two main supporters, Wall Street in the United States, and the I. G. Farben company in Germany. The I. G. Farben company was a beneficiary of the Dawes Plan, which was initiated in the United 98 The Secret Side of History the stage on both sides of the ocean to create World War marks would not even buy a box of matches. The crisis having been created, the solution was then offered, a man on a white horse to save the nation. Adolf Hitler was promoted as that man and eventually he and his Nazi