Hitler's Proclamation To The German Nation

After reading Adolph Hitler’s proclamation to the German Nation it became quite apparent that he was more willing to lay blame for most if not all of Germany’s issues at the time on outside causes. This can be seen quite clearly as you read the opening of his speech. He states that “MORE than fourteen years have passed since the unhappy day when the German people, blinded by promises from foes at home and abroad, lost touch with honor and freedom, thereby losing all” (Hitler 1993). What Hitler is referring to in his opening statement is the Treaty of Versailles and the foes being the countries who won World War One. He references about how badly Germany was treated by the League of Nations, when he says “We never received the equality and fraternity

To fix unemployment Hitler stated he had a four-year plan that will be “A concerted and all-embracing attack” on the unemployment problem in Germany. And while the unemployment problem is being worked on he also plans to work on “conditions necessary for a revival in trade and commerce…”(Hitler 1993). Essentially, he plans on fixing the unemployment problem alongside the political and trade issues. Roosevelt decided to face the unemployment problem by having the government recruit people to work. He wanted to act as if it was war time so that people would act quickly and efficiently.

On the economy front, Hitler thought that by fixing the unemployment issues, the issues of the farmers and “the exploitation of individual initiative” the economy would be strengthen. He also believed that communism needed to go away and that instead of classes there is just one people, the people of Germany. To fix the economy in the United States Roosevelt wanted the banks to be supervised so that they wouldn’t make bad investments and give credit out as freely as they did before. Furthermore, he wanted there to be “provision for an adequate but sound currency” (Roosevelt