The rise of the Nazi Party and its leader, Adolf Hitler, during the 1920s was no coincidence. The world, especially Germany, was ripe for dictatorship following the Great War. The Treaty of Versailles crippled Germany and laid the foundation for another World War. Germany, ravaged by war, was fac...
The Dogs of War In his poem, "The Second Coming", William Butler Yeats uses strong, precise syntax to make the reader feel the intensity of his words while conveying a dark atmosphere that gives the reader an uncertain and seemingly hopeless sense of what is to come. Some would argue that "The ...
Nazism, or National Socialism, was born at the end of World War One. The war had ended on the 11th of November 1918, when Germany had signed an armistice. The myth prevailed that Germany had been "stabbed in the back- by Marxists and Jews. Nowhere was this stronger than in the surviving soldiers, of...
In 1930 he announced to his followers: Aas long as I am its leader, It will never become a debating club for rootless intellectuals or chaotic parlor Bolsheviks, but will remain what it is today: an organization of discipline, which was not created for the doctrinaire foolishness of political dilettantes, but rather for the battle for a new Germany of the future in which class concepts will be destroyed and a new German people will determine its own fate. ...
Hitler's Rise To Power Who or what was responsible for Hitler's rise to power? Many believe that there was only one factor for his rise to power. Some state that Hitler could not have risen to power in any other than Germany, implying that he was nothing more than a product of German culture. Others...
The Treaty of Versailles was proposed to be a peace settlement between the victorious Allies and the defeated Germans at the outcome of World War I. The post-war reparations imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the subsequent economic disaster that Germany faced at the close of World War I, left the country vulnerable and looking for new leadership. The Treaty of Versailles was a culmination of hostility and revenge and provided the perfect environment for Hitler to rise to power, and set the stage for a second World War. World War I came ...