The stock market is an incredibly resilient thing. A wonderful example can be seen through some astounding facts I found out earlier this year about Germany’s stock market, courtesy of a blog post from investor Anthony Isola. Germany lost World War I, which lasted from 1914 to 1918, and signed the infamous Treaty of Versailles. The peace agreement placed usurious repayment demands on Germany, which resulted in hyperinflation in the country and the ruin of her economy in the 1920s. This paved the way for Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in the early 1930s. After Hitler’s ascension, he dragged the globe into World War II, starting with his invasion of Poland in 1939. During the war, Germany suffered decimating air raids on its cities conducted by the Allied nations and by 1945 she had lost the war. Here’s how Germany’s stock market did from 1930 to 1950: Source: Anthony Isola Unsurprisingly, German stocks were smashed shortly after World War II ended....