After World War I, there was significant economic instability in Germany. Due to inflation, personal savings of the middle class were wiped out and there was massive unemployment. The social and economic upheaval that followed World War I significantly destabilized Germany's fragile democracy and gave rise to many radical right wing parties in Weimar Germany, which resulted in undermining the democratic system in Germany. The German middle class wanted a more authoritarian direction, a kind of leadership which German voters unfortunately found in Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party. Similar conditions benefited right wing authoritarian and totalitarian systems in Eastern Europe as well, starting with the losers of World War I; this raised levels of tolerance for anti semitism and discrimination against minorities throughout the region.