How Did Adolf Hitler's Rise To Chancellorship
Hitler’s rise to Chancellorship
As Europe was in pandemonium over the Nazis Party’s quest for power, the man behind the ruthless attacks was Adolf Hitler. The power hungry German Chancellor who aimed to control and rule Europe. There’s a lot of information on Hitler, now made available to us. Especially with the publishing of his autobiography, Mein Kampf. We know of his rough childhood with a terribly angry father and a powerless mother. However, he managed to make it through that childhood, barely. The question that many Americans asked was. How did Adolf Hitler assume the position power over Germany, and how can one man begin a World War? While many assume that Hitler’s intense and rather passionate speeches had him elected to powering …show more content…
Blaming the Treaty of Versailles as one of the main causes to Germany’s current crippling state, also blaming the Jewish people as well. In “Germany is ready for peace” September 19, 1939, eighteen days after World War II began Hitler wrote, “The Versailles peace did the greatest injustice to Germany. If today a foreign statesman believes he may state that he has no confidence in the word of German people, then we Germans, above all, are entitled to say that we have no confidence whatsoever in the assurances of those who then broke their most solemn assurances.” He used the harsh punishments imposed on Germany at the end of World War I to fuel rage in his people. So that they could give him the support to attack Poland, and have it once again under German control. In “Germany is ready for peace” Hitler describes his attack on Poland, “I was determined to come to Danzig (a city in Poland) only as a liberator. I now take Danzig into the great German community with a firm determination never to allow her to be taken away. Generations will come and generations will go. They all will look back on our twenty years of absence from this city as a sad period in out history”⁵ His attack on Poland raised worry throughout Europe. Germany had once again lit the match to a World
As Europe was in pandemonium over the Nazis Party’s quest for power, the man behind the ruthless attacks was Adolf Hitler. The power hungry German Chancellor who aimed to control and rule Europe. There’s a lot of information on Hitler, now made available to us. Especially with the publishing of his autobiography, Mein Kampf. We know of his rough childhood with a terribly angry father and a powerless mother. However, he managed to make it through that childhood, barely. The question that many Americans asked was. How did Adolf Hitler assume the position power over Germany, and how can one man begin a World War? While many assume that Hitler’s intense and rather passionate speeches had him elected to powering …show more content…
Blaming the Treaty of Versailles as one of the main causes to Germany’s current crippling state, also blaming the Jewish people as well. In “Germany is ready for peace” September 19, 1939, eighteen days after World War II began Hitler wrote, “The Versailles peace did the greatest injustice to Germany. If today a foreign statesman believes he may state that he has no confidence in the word of German people, then we Germans, above all, are entitled to say that we have no confidence whatsoever in the assurances of those who then broke their most solemn assurances.” He used the harsh punishments imposed on Germany at the end of World War I to fuel rage in his people. So that they could give him the support to attack Poland, and have it once again under German control. In “Germany is ready for peace” Hitler describes his attack on Poland, “I was determined to come to Danzig (a city in Poland) only as a liberator. I now take Danzig into the great German community with a firm determination never to allow her to be taken away. Generations will come and generations will go. They all will look back on our twenty years of absence from this city as a sad period in out history”⁵ His attack on Poland raised worry throughout Europe. Germany had once again lit the match to a World