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Class: HST ---– The Second World War
Due Date: May XX, 2013
Word Count: 2742
Post World War One, Germany was deemed as the primary target of the Allies and was blamed for the destruction to the countries involving during the war. The sequence of events, from the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 to the Fall of Weimar Republic in 1933, led to the rise of a powerful force to be reckoned with, Adolf Hitler, the future Führer of Germany. This paper will focus on the overall importance of the Treaty of Versailles and the Wall Street crash of October 1929 in Hitler’s rise of power …show more content…
Churchill framed it perfectly when he said “into the void after a pause there strode a maniac of a ferocious genius, the repository and expression of the most virulent hatreds that have ever corroded the human breasts - Corporal Hitler”.48 The Nazis used any opportunity to promote German racial superiority and promote the extinction of Jews and all races that stood before them and their conquest of the continent. Hitler epitomized the ideologies of the Nazis and he knew how to mesmerize large crowds with his charismatic speeches. Ultimately, The Great Depression led to the rise of Hitler, who in turn did not stop until the World War broke out on the continent and eventually the …show more content…
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