MacMillan argues that this long held notion is fundamentally erroneous and that it is false to state that Germany's impoverishment, supposedly as a result of payment of reparations, caused the rise of national socialism.
That this long held notion is fundamentally erroneous and that it is false to state that Germany's impoverishment caused the rise of national socialism. This was supposedly as a result of payment of reparations. This is what MacMillan argues.