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Rise of Nazi Germany
WOH 2001
September 25, 2014
Nazi Germany Empire The Nazi Germany Empire is a topic that draws attention to historians from around the world. Adolf Hitler formed his empire from just a couple people and into a world-dominating masterpiece. Nazi Germany is “the 12 year period” in which the people of Germany dealt with Hitler and his extremely uniformed government. The Nazi Germany Empire had great power because of an ingenious leader and loyal followers. It went on to be one of the greatest and most historically important empires up to date. The Treaty of Versailles is what paved the way for the Nazi Empire. In the treaty it was stated that “the sole liability and responsibility is of the German Empire and its allies for the outbreak of the First World War” and that Germany had to pay for the majority of the war (Pawlak, Versailler Vertag). The treaty basically demanded that the German government pay millions of dollars in reparations for the war that they influenced. This caused the German people more frustration for two major reasons: they did not get their seat at the negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles, along with the Germans’ led to believe that they were not responsible for the war. This also led to economic inflation that “brought misery to sections of the middle class and created a general sense of disorder and chaos. Germans then began to believe that at that point they needed “highly radical solutions” (Gregor, The Rise of the Nazi Party), the German people needed Adolf Hitler. He sought to get his idea of true German nationalists into power, and succeeded. Originally, Hitler was working for the government on a task to infiltrate the German Worker’s Party, unfortunately that backfired. He ended up agreeing with their views and joined the group later in 1919. Hitler began to climb the ranks within the group. His “key weapon” was described as being his speaking skills, motivating everyone that crossed his path. He portrayed himself as an



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