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By the outbreak of war in August 1914, Germany was well established as major world power. Attained in less than 30 years – seen in country’s industrial & economic strength, o/seas colonies, extensive trading interests, & its vast army.

Yet, w/in 5 yrs, Germany was on its knees; its armies on Western Front were in full retreat, its citizens were starving & the Hohenzollern monarchy had abdicated in favour of a republic. Nation was about to enter into period of political, social & econ. chaos.

Popular belief held that German ppl & army had been betrayed by socialist politicians who now held reins of govt. Signatories to Armistice of No

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, & demanded chancellorship for himself, after election.

- Hitler requested & got special emergency powers from president to resist supposed communist threat.

- “Historians who are critical of view that society was restructured have described changes between 1933 & 1939 as a ‘revolution of form not substance’, stemming from Hitler’s concern to ‘deceive’ the ppl…Hitler’s new special order contained in Volksgemeinschaft was, in many respects, merely a propaganda gimmick. They now had over 2 million Jews under their control, but great no.

- Politically, conservative Germans had repeatedly shown themselves to be hostile to violent political revolution, lesson Hitler learnt in failed Munich Putsch in 1923. Naval high command ordered warships at Kiel to be put to sea for final battle w/ British fleet.

- In same year, Jewish inhabitants of major cities & towns began to be horded into ghettoes.

• Middle class Germans wanted an end to the economic uncertainty which menaced their savings & their prospects of social mobility. Excuse found for his removal when some land reform legislation, which threatened the big estates of the Junkers, was labelled as Bolshevism.

Lucy Dawidowicz in her book The War against the Jews argues that the plans for destroying the Jews argues that the plans for destroying the Jews were always part of Hitler’s thinking.

- After election Hitler told Schleicher that Nazis could no longer tolerate Papen govt. ordered policy of passive resistance from workers. Other found activities confining & resented attempts to eradicate individualism. barely had time to unite country under Weimar authority before another blow delivered in form of Treaty of Versailles, issued to German govt.

- Hitler Jugend [Hitler Youth] originally set up in 1926, but w/ appointment of Baldur von Schirach as leader in July 1933, the organization began to develop rapidly.

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