Following the Treaty‚ Germany was in a state of depression‚ humiliation‚ and a lack of confidence towards the weakened Weimar Republic. Adolf Hitler spent considerable amount of his early life in homeless shelters and hostels‚ where he was exposed to an extensive deal of influence from anti-Semitic works and nationalist viewpoints. He looked up to people such as Georg Ritter
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setting quotas on foreign imports. The Great Depression helped to bring about fascism in Germany. The rise of fascism predated the depression in Italy‚ where Mussolini took over in 1922. The Great Depression basically discredited the democratic Weimar government in Germany. However‚ the party in power will be blamed if things do not go right. High unemployments turned people away from the existing government‚ and caused them to look for alternatives‚ like the Fascist Nazis. However‚ the poor and
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Introduction This paper‚ by professor Kershaw‚ is very interesting. He provides a new angle from which we should look at the phenomenon of Nazi Germany. In order to support this type of “uniqueness”‚ he gathers a few peculiarities that were embedded in the regime: ethnic nationalism‚ genocidal violence and‚ of course‚ the character of Hitler himself. I believe‚ however‚ that some of the points he has indicated as “unique” were simply the transformation of a phenomena already existing in Fascist
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“Analyse the results of one Twentieth century treaty or peace settlement” The Locarno Treaties of 1925 could be seen as the formal turning point for the beginning of the Locarno honeymoon era. It came as a welcome solution to the German problem at a time where they were regaining strength as a powerful nation after accepting the Dawes Plan 1924‚ which gave them financial aid from the USA – worrying nations‚ particularly those sharing borders with Germany (France‚ Belgium‚ Poland‚ Czechoslovakia)
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himself‚ Asses the interpretation? 45 minutes. I disagree with the interpretation to an extent‚ there are many factors that lead to the rise of the Nazis that were not directly from Hitler‚ firstly‚ there was a weak government in Germany – the Weimar government was weak with many different parties and fringe parties struggling to agree on anything‚ the Reichstag couldn’t pass many laws‚ decisions could not be made and many people also saw this democratic system for Germany was weak and wanted
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Why did the Munich Putsch 1923 fail? The Munich Putsch of 1923‚ also known as the Beer Hall Putsch was Adolf Hitler’s attempt to overthrow the Weimar government of Ebert and establish a nationalistic one instead in its place. The Munich Putsch failed because of several factors. First‚ Hitler had only about 35‚000 supporters at that time so there was a shortage of rebels. Second‚ the Kahr had
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Hitler gained support for three main reasons; the German citizens had lost faith in the Weimar government and began to turn to extremist groups for help‚ German citizens became desperate and began to like Nazi ideas on hunger and unemployment or they felt threatened and feared the communists and thought only the Nazis would be able to help them (maybe even involving the SA). German citizens lost faith in the Weimar government and the Great depression gave Hitler and the Nazis the opportunity to gain
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Versailles and promised a Lebensraum for all the Germans. The Nazi party had anti-Semitic ideas‚ blaming the state of the country at the time on the Jews‚ with Hitler orating those thoughts to the public who wanted to have someone to blame for all the problems in Germany. Hitler had such a "charisma that people believed whatever he said" (Emil Klein‚ Nazi supporter‚ 1920s‚ BBC interview) so he soon became very popular with the population. He also appealed to the majority of the population as he considered
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Paris Peace Conference after the First World War caused deep resentment of Germany towards Western countries due to the extremely harsh terms‚ such as the reparation of 6600 million pounds and the clause of war guilt. It led to discontent towards the Weimar government and the fall of democracy in Germany that Hitler was able to rise in power‚ who came in strong words to recover the Treaty of Versailles. As for Italy‚ there was also the rise of totalitarianism because she failed to get the land she was
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that Germany went from a democracy to a dictatorship in only a few years. The first aspect to consider is the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty could be the main reason for all of Germany’s problems. Germany was to take all the guilt for WW1‚ give up some
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