Nazi
The Nazi party rose to power in Germany due to perfect timing and a well thought out political strategy. Adolf Hitler was the figurehead of the party, and with his charismatic speeches and manipulation of the German people’s emotions, was able to take over the nation for the Nazi party. However it was not Hitler alone who was responsible for the rise and success of the party. The climate of Germany that was ripe for the taking had been set up long before Hitler. It was also the negligence of outside powers and their desire for peace that would allow for Nazi Germany to grow in power in the days leading up to World War II.
Before we can understand how the Nazi party was successful we must look back to the history of the Germanic people. The first know use of the word “Germani” was in the year 222 B.C. by the Romans. (Waldman, Carl, Mason; Encyclopedia of European peoples, p.797) This term was used as a classification of the related peoples East of Rome, particularly the Gauls, but also included many peoples from the Rhine through Scandinavia, and modern day Poland. These societies all shared a similar language and culture but would not be united for nearly 2,000 years.
Otto von Bismarck was a Prussian conservative politician and aristocrat who would go on to unite most of the German states, the main exception being Austria. Through diplomacy he moved these nations from a lose confederation into a strong empire in the 1860s, eventually going on to defeat Austria in the Austrio-Prussian war of 1866. Bismarck would later be at the forefront of keeping peace in Europe. He helped sign the German-Austrian Agreement of 18 in 1879, the secrete Alliance of the Three Emperors in 1881 (Germany, Austria and Russia), and the secret Triple Alliance in 1882. (Germany, Austria and Italy) These alliances would set the stage for the Great War.
Due to the Triple Alliance Germany was forced into war against the Triple Entente (Russia, England and France). The First World War
Before we can understand how the Nazi party was successful we must look back to the history of the Germanic people. The first know use of the word “Germani” was in the year 222 B.C. by the Romans. (Waldman, Carl, Mason; Encyclopedia of European peoples, p.797) This term was used as a classification of the related peoples East of Rome, particularly the Gauls, but also included many peoples from the Rhine through Scandinavia, and modern day Poland. These societies all shared a similar language and culture but would not be united for nearly 2,000 years.
Otto von Bismarck was a Prussian conservative politician and aristocrat who would go on to unite most of the German states, the main exception being Austria. Through diplomacy he moved these nations from a lose confederation into a strong empire in the 1860s, eventually going on to defeat Austria in the Austrio-Prussian war of 1866. Bismarck would later be at the forefront of keeping peace in Europe. He helped sign the German-Austrian Agreement of 18 in 1879, the secrete Alliance of the Three Emperors in 1881 (Germany, Austria and Russia), and the secret Triple Alliance in 1882. (Germany, Austria and Italy) These alliances would set the stage for the Great War.
Due to the Triple Alliance Germany was forced into war against the Triple Entente (Russia, England and France). The First World War