The Rise of Hitler and Nazism in GermanyEssay title: The Rise of Hitler and Nazism in GermanyThere are many reasons people say as to why the nazi party was created and what some of the causes were. Throughout the duration of my paper I am going to explain and discuss some of the major topics that could have led to the rise of Nazism in Germany, such as the treaty of Versailles and some of the restrictions that were put on Germany, the loss of the war, and the Weimar Republic. These are just some of the reasons that are going to be looked at and discussed.
Germanys beating in World War One made political, economic and social fall in the Weimar Republic and led to the rise of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) or Nazi party.
The First World War put stress on the German people. The space between the rich and poor got bigger and also between classes. It had direct effect on the workers as wages dropped and the amount of food went down. Food was sold on the black market but the prices were high and the poor could not afford to buy it. This led to as many as 700,000 deaths because of hypothermia and starvation in the winter of 1916-17.
In order to get the German people to allow the fatigue of the war, chancellor Bethmann Hollweg promised political rebuild in a speech on February 1917. This promise led to a political crisis and sent 400, 000 ammunition workers in Berlin on strike, this threatened to do enormous amounts of harm to the arms production. However, as long as the military held their powerful position and the chance for a the win of the war remained, they didnt seem to worried about it. After the chancellor was forced to resign in July 1917 military fixation got bigger. In September 1918 the military effort suddenly fell apart. The allied powers, in particular President Wilson of the United States, made Germany become a democracy. On November 1918 the they announced the breakthrough of the birth of the new Weimar Republic.
On June 28 1919 the German government signed the Treaty of Versailles demanded by the allied powers. Clause 231 blamed Germany for causing the war and the majority of Germans did not agree with this part of the treaty. They blamed the Weimar government for losing the war and signing the Treaty. This was also linked to the demand for financial compensation for the cost of the war paid to France and Britain. This caught the Germans by surprise, as it would be hard to pay anything since the war had hurt the country so much. Germanys army was to be reduced to 100 000 and was not aloud to produce “offensive” weapons. There was to be no air force or submarines and the navy was to be reduced to six small battleships and six cruisers. Maybe the hardest thing to get by was the losses of land that Germany had lost. Germanys land was reduced by 13 % and all of the colonies were taken. Because of fears of another attack, German land (Rhineland) was forced to be completely demilitarized.
Political conflict also got much bigger in the Weimar government. The far left wing, called the Spartacist League or the Communist Party, created an uprising, which was overcome by the Free Corps – a group of former army officers who later became Nazis. The leaders, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were arrested and murdered. This led to a final break between the SPD and the USPD.
Smaller armys, put into force by the Versailles Treaty, set off the Kapp Putsch, the extremist group also known as the National Association tried to stop the government using the help of Free Corps units. The workers overcame the up rise due to a strike.
Inflation helped the government to pay back war debts in almost worthless currency. Inflation and high interest rates also helped some investments that Germany had made. Inflation also led to loss of wealth and those whose wealth was in savings lost everything. While this was going on the strength of the republic continued to be unstable against the nationalist attempt to bring it down.
Rural Germans were on the verge of bankruptcy and starvation. This is another reason why the Nazi party attracted so much support during the 1920s. They promised too much concessions and aids to a group of voting Germans, who would be more than ready to accept the Nazis promises. Hitler also made many other promises to the German people. One promise came after another. After the treaty Was signed forcing Germany to pay thirty seven annual payments from 1700 million gold marks to 2400 million gold marks, and then twenty one annual payments at 1700 million gold marks. This meant that Germany would be making payments at an average of just over 2000 gold marks until 1988. When this was brought to Hitlers attention, he said he would not make payments and cursed the Weimar Governments decision to agree
In 1919, during World War 2, Hitler made a number of major promises to the German people. First, he promised to abolish the old rule of law by the Kaiser, a German law for the Reich that he felt was no longer respected; his second was to end the Jewish people’s right to vote and, finally, give free suffrage to women. These promises were based on the premise that women ought to serve their men, but they did not have to be completely implemented. In fact, Hitler suggested that, “every German who wishes to vote in this country should take part in the public service as soon as he can as a woman has a family to take care of. All of us need to be ready for this” He also promised to build the highest factory in Germany in order to make food and other commodities more popular. With this, Hitler declared: “You know that you can build a new country if you don’t buy a large amount of the same at the same time on a lot less than you need, just as you can in America.”
In 1933, in spite of a general economic downturn and the rise of fascism and communism, the economy was still recovering. Not only was the German economy working well after World War 2, but also Germans, in the eyes of Hitler was very happy about this. He called for a third world war. Hitler also set about to rebuild the Reich, which has remained the most prosperous economy of the 1930s (even though his plans to annex the German Reich to an independent state were crushed due to anti-Jewish sentiment). These promises didn’t succeed and in 1939 Hitler again promised a new era of economic prosperity for Germany. In return, the German people received the country’s most powerful economic weapon by creating “The Reich” which in practice was a far more powerful Nazi government and that is one of its most powerful and powerful tools. This Hitler used on a small population in Bavaria where a large number of people were living with his German neighbors, during his time in power. During his time in power Hitler had brought Germany in one of the easiest and most prosperous areas of human history. As for the Jews, who in this history had the largest economic advantage when it came to this part of Nazi Germany, they couldn’t be the only people suffering from German economic weaknesses because of their political class domination in Germany. This was not to say all Jews are not Jews, but many also were. These facts were not made available to the public in 1939 by Hitler, but instead were made available for the masses thanks to his policy of using Hitler’s family estate to support the economy of his country. The economy of Nazi Germany is like the real economy of Poland in 1939, where a government controlled by an oligarch, the state owned by the nobility. Hitler knew in advance that his success would be an obstacle to a democratic socialist society. In 1939, the Nazis were able to achieve this dream and in 1942 Hitler was actually able to establish a new country which is still very much at war with the USSR and which is facing the most serious economic difficulties. The fact that Hitler was able to manage the economy of Nazi Germany even while a government was ruling over a tiny part of the German population led him