1931 was the worst, but notice that 1930 was not far behind.
31 December 2008
2008 Was the Third Worst Year for US Stocks Since 1896
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Great Depression,
stock market crash,
worst years
"It is crudely general to suggest collective responsibility for the German populace. It is, however, fair to suggest that those who continued to defend the idea of Germanhood publicly as the war went on—when this had become synonymous with barbarity—were in fact renouncing their humanity for the sake of individual survival and peace of mind."
Panayiotis Demopoulos, Götterdämmerung: Suicide Music