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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler and His Rise to Power Alberto J Fernandes Fisher College

In the early twenty century there was a great world tragedy that could have been prevented. The holocaust was a dark part of this worlds history. Looking back and it make one wonder how did Adolph Hitler grow to have so much power; did anyone step up to fight against this before it broke out into war and what could have been done to prevent this from happening. At the end of the first World War Germany had been defeated by the allies which was the United states of America, Britain and France who were the major superpowers that defeated them. Germany was put to blame for most of the war and had to sign the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty put Germany in a tight situation. in Gavin Lewis WCIV textbook it states: Under the provisions of the treaty, Germany lost prince of Alsace and Lorraine, its overseas colonies, and valuable lands on its eastern frontiers. Germany also had to surrender most of its merchant shipping and to dismantle it armed forces. but the most objectionable part of the Versailles treaty, from the German point of view, was the "War Guilt" Clause- which stated that Germany and its partners accepted the responsibility for all loss and damage caused by the war.(p479) The state Germany was in after World War I, economically it was in ruins, national pride and moral was nonexistent, people had no jobs, and the infrastructure was crumbling. They and the rest of the nations who were apart of the Central Power had t not only repair the damages in their countries but every other nation too. The treaty left Germany feeling angry and bitter towards the other nations. The Treaty left them with virtually nothing and it was the allies that took it from them. In the mist of trying to repair things and get the country back on their feet, there was a governmental; election happening and the National Socialist Party(Nazi) received 37 percent of the



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