|Essay about “Hitler’s Foreign Policy”, by Norman Rich |Modern and Contemporary History |
|Pr. Dr. Luciano Amaral | |
Students:
Ana Margarida Cruz nº 10487
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Alan John Percivable Taylor (1906-1990) was born in Lancashire, England. After his studies in Oriel College in Oxford he became a political and diplomatic historian. He was significant both for controversy his work on Germany and Second World War engendered and for his role in development of history on television.
In this essay, based on Hitler's Foreign policy, by Norman Rich who makes several references to The Origins of the Second World War (1961), by Alan John Perceivable Taylor, we will discuss the author’s opinion, based on historical facts about the the main character, Hitler, the Chancellor of Germany and the head of state from 1934 to 1945.
In 1923 Hitler attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment and during this time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf. After this, he gained support by promoting Pan-Germanium, anti-Semitism, and anti-communism with an incredible charismatic oratory and an effective propaganda. Then, in 1933, Hitler came finally to power, as Chancellor and transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism.
Taylor believed that Hitler did not bring political innovation as his foreign policy was the same of his predecessors except some differences in emphasis: free Germany from the restrictions of Versailles