The 1920’s were a bleak period for Germany due to the aftermath of World War 1 and the acceptance and enforcement of Article 231. The restrictions and economic crises were enough to lead Adolf Hitler to take a stand for Germany and its citizens and attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic. Hitler led 2,000 German Nazi soldiers into Beer Hall to make his attempt. Though his attempt failed, Hitler started a movement that would change Germany forever. This lead to the creation of his work Mein Kampf, the Nazi Party, and Germany’s 3rd Reich.
On June 28th, 1941 the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, future heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip who killed this student changed the world.
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The killing of Ferdinand in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia, triggered a chain of events leading up to the first World War. The emperor or king of Germany at the time was called a Kaiser, and his name was Wilhelm II, he would be the last Kaiser of Germany. With being the Kaiser, Wilhelm himself did not even expect the war, let alone anyone else.(Kaiser Wilhelm II) The war lasted from 1914 to late 1918, consisting of allied powers, with Germany being part of the Central power and most involved in the war even though they did not expect a war. Germany had been developing plans to invade every European country, which was called the Schlieffen Plan, and it was Germany's plan to end the war quickly. This failed and caused the Germans to lose the war, because the Belgian’s fought back when Germany tried to go straight to attacking France. In late 1918, Wilhelm II was to resign his throne, being the last Kaiser of Germany. When he resigned, that left an opening of power. This caused a new Government to be created, it would be called the Weimar Republic. The Weimar Republic was not the only outcome of Germany losing the war.(The Forming of the Weimar Republic)Little did Germany know, they would be forced to sign a harsh, unjust treaty, known as The Treaty of Versailles. (Treaty of Versailles, 1919) The first World War had officially come to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty was written by non-German allies, known as the “Western Powers”, it was a harsh treaty to all defeated nations. Germany had no choice but to sign the treaty, because it was under a protest. Signing that treaty effected Germany horrendously, they lost numerous amount of territory, which made them surrender any of their own territories. They also had to give up a heavily populated German area, Danzig, which was turned into a free city. (World War One Aftermath) The result of the treaty also forced Germany to reduce weapons, nation's army, and vehicles to a minimum. (Treaty of Versailles) Not only did the Treaty of Versailles cause demilitarization, conceding of territory, there was also lots of humiliation from Article 231 of the treaty. (Treaty of Versailles, 1919) The most humiliating part of the War was not when Germany lost, but “The War Guilt Clause” also called Article 231. Germany was forced to take all the blame for the start of the war. Germany now had taken the blame for not only just the war, but all the damage it caused too with the other nations. Germany was held liable to pay the other countries for their loses in the war starting a great economic issue (War Guilt Clause). Germany in the 1920’s had been already drained from the war and now had to pay back Great Britain and France. Germany cut back work, causing the unemployment rate to go up. That rose and rose each year and became a horrific amount. Germany also had tariffs placed into their goods by other countries, which made the cost if the products very low. With the payments to the other counties in the war costing so much, this was nearly impossible to pay, unless Germany started printing mass amounts of money. This was the start of Germany’s inflation. The inflation was so bad there were cartoons made about money being worthless, no matter how much they had. The German people’s life savings could not even afford groceries. This is when Hitler began to have ideas to save Germany. (Castillo, Daniel) Ever since the signing of The Treaty of Versailles, Adolf Hitler has been fed up about it, along with many other Germans. He believed that the Jewish politicians “stabbed Germany in the back” when they surrendered the war. (Magana, Carlos) Hitler was in World War 1 and fought, and felt humiliated along with many others about surrendering. Not only did that start his rise, but they economic struggles had a major impact also. Once the economy started to go down hill, Hitler knew he had to save Germany. Adolf Hitler’s main goal was to make Germany great again, that was the quote he lived by because he felt that the Treaty had went against it. Hitler pledged to make Germany strong like it used to be. Hitler had joined the “German Workers Party”, they all believed in German Pride and anti-semitism.”It is not truth that matters, but victory.” (Hitler,Adolf) After Hitler spoke in many beer halls and the group grew, he became leader and later changed the name to the Nazi Party. Later on as the party grew, the Nazi party wanted to take action, they had come up with the idea to overthrow the Weimar republic. (Beer Hall Putsch History.com) On November 8th, 1923 Hitler marched into beer hall with his Nazi troops and demanded that the National Revolution had begun. Hitler selected three of the highest officials and forced them to go to the back room and told them to join his Nazi party. The three men stayed silent, which angered hitler and he threatened to shoot them. They weren’t talking so hitler until General Ludendorff had arrived. ( Beer Hall Putsch History.com) Once he talked to them they came out to where Hitler was and supported him. The German soldiers in the barracks would not surrender causing Hitler to leave Beer Hall and go talk to them, which was a mistake, the three men that just committed to hitler betrayed him and left. On top of that the German soldiers were not surrendering, nothing was going as Hitler planned.The next day is when Hitler decided to take action again. General Ludendorff gave Hitler a genius idea and Hitler would use it the next day. (Rise of Hitler: Beer Hall Putsch) On November 9th, 1923, the Beer Hall Putsch would take place.
This was HItler's stand against the Weimar Republic and the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty of Versailles was unjust to the German people, and they were already cheated out of war and Hitler was the only man to take action. (Beer Hall Putsch History.com) He was told the idea by Ludendorff to go march down Munich and take over, and that is exactly what Hitler did. Hitler led 3,000 German Nazis down Munich towards the War Ministry, only to be surrounded by police all over. Shots were fired, 16 Nazi’s were killed and many were arrested and fleeing. Luckily for Hitler he was not arrested at the Putsch, and he got away. He was later found at a family's house and arrested there. Although the Beer Hall Putsch was a fail, this changed Hitler and started his movement to success. (Rise of Hitler: Beer Hall …show more content…
Putsch) Since the Putsch was over, he realized that an armed fight was not the right way to receive power in Germany. When Hitler was thrown in prison, he wrote a book called “Mein Kampf” or “My Struggle.” This book was about Hitler's plan for Germany in the future and rise to power and his views as a Nazi Party Leader. The book told Hitler's anti-semitic beliefs and what his future plan to exterminate the Jews (Mein Kampf). One of his most popular quotes expressing his rise to power is: “In order to shine like the Sun, you must first burn like it’” -Adolf Hitler, that was one of his quotes from Mein Kampf. (@storypicker) When Hitler got out of prison he published his book in 1925, over 9,000 copies sold that year. The book helped him get the Nazi Party back together and begin to grow tremendously.There were over 100,000 German Nazis now. Hitler gained so many supporters when he rose to power and became chancellor of Germany in January of 1933. (Mein Kampf) Hitler promised to make Germany a better place, and he did for the time being. He had marvelous ideas on how to fix the unemployment and inflation rates. All the Germans were so pleased to hear what he was going to do to put an end to the Great Depression. Hitler persuaded many in Germany, he was known to give amazing speeches about what people wanted to hear. “Many believed they had found the savior to their nation.” (Hitler comes To Power) Hitler expanded Germany, reduced the unemployment rates, and ended the Great Depression in Germany. Not only did he save Germany’s economy, he would also soon put his propaganda into use. (Adolf Hitler is Chancellor of Germany) Hitler's plan was not only to expand his empire but it was exterminate all Jews, and he was extremely successful with both of those plans.(Holocaust Timeline) In 1933, Hitler began to release non-Aryans from the civil service, and closing Jew-owned shops along with taking away clients of Jews if they were in the medical field.
(The Holocaust) Hitler thought out his plan and made a pact with Poland in 1934, to reduce the risk of being attacked until Germany had a stable, strong army. When he built up a strong enough army, he demolished poland in a few weeks. In 1935 while having a rally at Nuremberg, the Nazis announced some new laws about German Jew citizenship. These laws led to a few persecutions of Jews and some thrown in jail but the real Holocaust truly began on the night of Broken Glass. That was when Nazis went around burning Jews homes and shops, killing Jews, and arresting thousands. From there “ghettos” were soon to be born, and that would be the majority of the Jews homes for a long time. (The Holocaust) In 1939 Hitler and his army took control over the western half of Poland, forcing Poland Jews into the
“ghettos”. When Hitler invaded Poland that was the start of World War 2 “Coming just two decades after the last great global conflict, the Second World War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries and resulting in more than 50 million military and civilian deaths (with some estimates as high as 85 million dead).” (World War II) Hitler invading Poland sparked the Second World War which lasted 6 horrendous years until the Allies beat Germany and Japan. World War 2 made Hitler want to act fast, and that was when his idea of the “Final Solution” was created. Hitler started to make concentration camps also known as death camps for the Jews and had Einsatzgruppen (killing squads) along with gas chambers killing a majority too. The Final Solution phase of the Holocaust lasted from 1941-1945, ending the phase with the Death Marches out of the camps when Germany surrendered World War 2. (Holocaust) Ones that stayed back at the camps were found by US soldiers and freed and helped the Jews they could find. They arrested many Nazis and found Hitler who had committed suicide with his wife in Berlin. (World War II) Without the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler never would have been put in prison. Then he would have never came up with Mein Kampf and his propaganda to influence that German was the superior race and spread his anti-semitic beliefs through Germany. The Beer Hall Putsch was the start of Hitler's rise, him taking a stand against the Weimar Republic who was influencing the Treaty of Versailles that was unjust to the Germans. This is a huge deal to Germany because not many people would have the courage to storm into Beer Hall and demand the officials to become Nazis. This time in History is important because this was just the beginning to a major world changing event called the Holocaust.
Adolf Hitler came into power of Germany in 1934. Wanting power, land and revenge, Hitler gets troops ready to attack. Hitler was a troop in WWI for Germany. Once the Germans lost the war, Hitler took that personally, and wanted revenge. After coming into power with his army of Nazis, Hitler is quick to blame Jewish people for all the harsh debt and corruption in Germany. The Germans believe him, causing them to hate Jewish people. The holocaust happened throughout 1933-1945, it ended when Hitler killed himself.
Poland was devastated when German forces invaded their country on September 1, 1939, marking the beginning of World War II. Still suffering from the turmoil of World War I, with Germany left in ruins, Hitler's government dreamt of an immense, new domain of "living space" in Eastern Europe; to acquire German dominance in Europe would call for war in the minds of German leaders (World War II in Europe). The Nazis believed the Germans were racially elite and found the Jews to be inferior to the German population. The Holocaust was the discrimination and the slaughter of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its associates (Introduction to the Holocaust). The Nazis instituted killing centers, also known as “extermination camps” or “death camps,” for being able to resourcefully take part in mass murder (Killing Centers: An Overview).
It all started when Hitler became the leader of Germany in 1933. He believed that the German people were of a “superior race” and that they should rule the world. Anyone else that was not German were considered to be an “inferior race.” This was all non-aryan people, including Africans, Slavic’s, and Jewish people (Background Information about World War II...). He took the rights from Jewish people and wanted to diminish them completely (World War 2: A Brief History). In 1938 Hitler ordered that Jews were removed from their homes and moved to the “Ghettos” where they had to live with way too many people and the conditions of living were horrendous. They didn't have enough food, and they didn't have any of the other necessities that they would normally have in their own home. (Background Information about World War II...). They sent the Jews to concentration camps where they were forced to work against their will and they were also sent to gas chambers where they were murdered (Background Information about World War II...). It is estimated that between fifty and seventy million people died during World War 2 and millions of them were Jews (W...
Of these two genocides, the Holocaust is more widely known. In the early 1930s, the German economy was in poor condition (“Background”). The Nazis tried and succeeded at portraying the Jews as terrible people to the public. After a persuasive campaign, Adolf Hitler was elected as chancellor of Germany on January 30th, 1933 and wasted little time in starting his evil mission (“History”). Soon after his election, he began taking a lot of the rights of the Jews away, including their citizenship (“History”). Hitler wanted a pure nation and he thought he could get that with having only the Aryan race in Germany (“Background”). The people of Germany, seeing their economic problems start to get better, ignored the discrimination and let the Nazis put their plan into action. Hitler had one goal and that was to kill every single Jew in Europe (Haugen and Musser). After capturing towns, cities, and countries, Hitler would take all the Jews and put them into concentration camps (Haugen and Musser). Some camps were designed purely to kill every single Jew that was sent there, while some were labor camps. (Haugen and Musser)
During this time Adolf Hitler, former military officer, attended "Beer Hall" meetings of the German Workers party that advocated a confused program of racism and social reform. Hitler quickly rose the ranks through his oratory skills. He appealed to the German population through their emotions. For instance, he spoke on inflation, the humiliation and growing despair among the population. In November 9th 1923, Adolf Hitler and his followers staged a "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich and attempted to take over the government in Bavaria. Hitler was imprisoned for treason when the putsch failed and sentenced to serve 5 years. Realistically, he only spent less than a year, during which he wrote "Mein Kampf". Mein Kampf was Hitler 's autobiography that outlined his political ideology and future goals for Germany. In "Mein Kampf" Hitler expresses his hatred for the Jews, referring to them as "parasites", and most importantly emphasizes the idea of a dominant race, the "Aryan". Hitler believed that pure-blood Germans were superior to any other race. In the hopes of continuing his master plan, when Hitler was released from prison he expected Germany to be in turmoil, as he left
Opposition arose within Hitler's own party, and in June of 1934 hundreds were shot and stabbed (an event known as the Night of Long Knives), including General von Schleicher (former chancellor of the Weimar Republic) and his wife, some Catholic leaders, some Socialists, and some that were killed by mistake (Chambers 939). Backed into a corner, the German people had but two choices: They were either with Hitler or against him, and at the time there was no real political alternative. All citizens of the Reich knew if they were not in complete compliance they would be killed, as state-sponsored murder was legalized through a decree on July 3, 1934. & nbsp; Hitler continued on this path of destruction and oppression and prompted WW2 with the invasion of Poland. By this time he had already established extermination camps in Russia, Poland, and Germany.
to reach he would have to do it legally, and so he decided to stand
Hitler had vowed five years prior to the Putsch that he would not " rest nor sleep until the politicians who had signed the armistice had been hurled to the ground, until on the ruins of the pitiful Germany. of today has risen a Germany of power and greatness. This putsch was begun simply to avenge the armistice, to take over and change what he wanted to change and make them "the great nation" they were. On 8th November Hitler broke into a meeting in a large beer hall. which three leaders of the Bavarian government had.
The party attempted to take control of the government by force. This failed as the Nazi’s did not enjoy widespread support at the time. The government was capable of controlling the armed forces and police. Hitler was imprisoned as a result of the Putsch (Uprising).
It began with the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party. Hitler ran for president but lost to Paul Von Hindenburg. Hindenburg soon appointed Hitler as Chancellor in January 1933. President Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor after Hitler tried to run for president but was denied (Fitzgerald 28). Hitler was assigned to keep the Nazis under control, which meant he would have to work with political parties within the government, however, that would only back fire on Hindenburg. Hitler continued to take control. He quickly began enforcing power against the Jew in March as the dictator (Fitzgerald 30). August 17, 1938 Laws passed that required Jew to distinguish themselves from the Germans (The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum). Hitler was on the rise.
Adolf Hitler came to power on February 28, 1933 (Rossel). He rose to power using inflammatory speeches and inspiring hope for the defeated Germans. He constructed a system to empower the German people and allow them to thrive in the period after the Great Depression (Noakes). Using keen acumen and decisive moves, he was able to turn Germany into a war machine bent on the creation of an Aryan utopian society, at the cost of all inferior races, especially the Jews ("The Period between 1933 and 1939"). At this time Germany was a defeated country. They had recently had numerous humiliating defeats in WWI, and the Germans no longer had the pride they once had celebrated (Laurita). Augmented by the fact that the Great Depression had ravaged the country and left many in a state of penury and impoverished, the Germans were desperate. As well, Germany was currently a country without any source of stability without a generally supported constitution. When Hitler promised a utopian society filled with hope and where the Germans would be exalted as the superior race, the Germans listened and obeyed his every word (Noakes). Hitler fed on the desperation and hopelessness of these German people to make a society driven by fear; this state of pity allowed Hitler to convince the Germans that he could provide a better future.
Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, after World War 1 when tensions were high because the Treaty of Versailles blamed Germany for the destruction the war caused and they were faced with the payment for all the damages, which sent Germany into economic downfall. The Nazi party got a lot of electoral votes that year in the government, and started creating propaganda against the Jews; they blamed the Jews for the terrible things happening in Germany at the time. Some of the propaganda the Nazi party made were pictures of Jews pointing out what makes them Jewish and their distinctive traits, so you can spot them. These were on the front of newspapers printed everywhere in Germany. (An Introductory History of the Holocaust) They began to take away individual rights, and picked the Jews apart. They also put the Star of David on all Jews clothing, so they could easily be spotted in public.
“They demanded that citizens of non-German or Jewish origin be deprived of German citizenship, and they called for the cancellation of the Treaty of Versailles” (Hoffmann). Soon the NSDAP had tons of members. They attacked the government and stated that they, The Nazi Party, could get Germany’s economy up and moving again and make Germany great again. This attempt became known as the Beer Hall Putsch, it failed and Hitler was sent to prison. “His prison stay was more like a house arrest and became a media event that, incredibly, earned him the sympathy of the masses” (Wein). While Hitler was in prison he wrote his book called Mein Kampf. In his book he wrote about things that he believed and his great plans for Germany. Some of which were: his plan to conquer much of Europe, territories lost in World War I would be recovered, along with Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia, basically wherever Germans lived would be added to the nation of Germany. The growing German nation would seize Lebensraum , a living space, from Poland, the Soviet Union, and other countries to the east. He also wrote about the Jews and all the bad they caused in the world. “He said: "By defending myself against the Jews, I am doing the Lord 's work." Democracy, said Hitler, could lead only to Communism. A dictatorship was the only way to save Germany from
More and more people came to hear him, and Hitler learned how to capture his listener’s emotions, telling them the Jews, Socialists, and Communists were to blame for Germany’s problems and that the Germans were the master race (Bradley, 13). In addition, Hitler attempted to stage a revolt to take over the government called the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, but it failed, and he was sentenced to jail for treason (“Adolf Hitler Biography”). Although the Nazi party became disorganized while he served the 9 months in jail, the whole nation now knew who Hitler was and what he stood for due to the press he received and speeches he made during his trial (Gavin). Even from his jail cell he continued his rise to
In the year of 1933 Adolf Hitler seized the position of chancellor of Germany and this power that he received in January 30th is what shaped one of the most bloodlust dictatorships that this world has ever known. Hitler’s desire for power and victory made him one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen but it also made him one of the most cruel and heartless people known to mankind. But how did he do this, how did he become one of the greatest and cruellest dictators? Throughout this essay we will explore the long, short and immediate causes for Hitler’s sudden success.