Congress refused to pay the bonus but offered to pay for the marchers to get back home. Police were sent in to break up the marchers’ camp. However, the marchers fought back to try to prevent this.

A worldwide economic depression combined with the distance helped keep the numbers down at these Games to the lowest since 1904 and the International Olympic Committee supplemented the costs for ...

The most obvious consequence of this collapse was a huge rise in unemployment. Over the winter of 1929-30 the number of unemployed rose from 1.4 million to over 2 million. By the time Hitler ...