Many Germans after World War I were miserably poor--and very bitter about Germany's defeat, which they blamed for their poverty and sense of national shame. Whom did most Germans blame for Germany's economic problems and disgrace? bankers and politicians who supported the Treaty of Versailles because it opened Germany to trade

the communists who moved to Germany after the Germans and the USSR formed an alliance

the British and the Americans who pushed for severe war penalties for Germany after World War I

Socialists and others who opposed supported Germany's surrender at the end of World W