Germany had a poor economy, but in the same context, Germany had to help other countries which led to them having to pay for it. After the first world war in The Treaty of Versailles, Germany had A LOT of debt to deal with and they lost quite a bit of land. Remembering that Germany was a very poor economy, they wanted jobs. They wanted someone to give them jobs to fix the debt and everything.
Then, Hitler came along in like the 1930's and he got land from places like France and they could expand to start the rise of Fascism. Pg. 770, 771. 773 (Mussolini's