hitler and germany
Adolf Hitler, one of the 20th century's most powerful dictators, was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary. He first became interested in politics after witnessing a large protest by German workers. Finding the outbreak of World War I as an opportunity to show his loyalty to Germany, Hitler volunteered for the Imperial Army. Later faced with fierce resistance from the British and French armies and an economy in ruins, German generals requested armistice negotiations with the Allies in November 1918. Hitler and the German soldiers found it impossible to swallow defeat (History Place). Because he believed that the Jews’ betrayal caused their defeat, Hitler acquired a hatred for socialism and came to equate it with the Jews. He held that the superior Aryan race would be the final victor and would rule the world, but to win this struggle, Germany would have to be ruled by a dictator and would have to have hatred for all other inferior races, especially the Jews. It was then that his extreme dislike for the Jews developed (Encarta). After the war in March 1918, Hitler was employed by a Munich army to keep tabs on the racist German Worker’s Party, later changing its name to . . .
Hitler received 30% of the votes, and Hindenburg received 49%, but Hindenburg didn’t get the absolute majority, making a run-off election necessary. The new Chancellor of Germany had no intentions of abiding by the rules of democracy. Unfortunately for him, his plan failed. The Nazis began a systematic takeover of the state governments throwing out legitimate office holders and replacing them with Nazi Reich commissioners. On July 20, 1944 Staufenberg went to a military conference that was being held and placed a bomb under a table. After speaking at a meeting held by this organization he amazed the crowd with his speech in outlining the political platform of the organization’s “Twenty Five Points”, which included the union of all Germans, the exclusion of citizenship of anyone other than a German, and a strong central government, thus gaining recognition as a prominent leader. They gave Hitler 36% of the votes and Hindenburg got 53% of the votes, giving him another seven-year term. In the 1932 presidential election President Hindenburg reluctantly announced his candidacy for re-election. The Nazis had brought down the German Democratic Republic legally after getting enough votes to pass the enabling act that would vote democracy out of existence in Germany and establish the legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler. They agreed to make Hitler the next Chancellor of Germany. The secret of these crimes (gas chambers, crematoria) was so carefully guarded that the majority of Germans, although they knew of the existence of the camps, didn’t suspect the horrible things happening there. The people of Germany were fed up with Hitler’s dictatorship. Towards the end of his reign, thousands of Jews were killed (Geary pg 35-41). On April 10, 1932, the people voted.
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