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Which reason is most important to why Hitler rose to power?
shown that it was a peace loving country.
Anchluss
This was set up to stop Germany and Austria-Hungry from joining forces together.
However in the peaceful years of the 1920’s things were quieting down with Stressemann in power
However in the peaceful years of the 1920’s things were quieting down with Stressemann in power he introduced the Dawes plan in 1924. Also in 1924 Germany joined the League of Nations and the Locarno Agreement was set up in 1925 this all meant that German Society was settling down or was it? In 1929 when the Wall Street Crash happened Germany had to pay back the loans. This was too much for the German society. The Weimar Republic collapsed and Hitler (who was gaining popularity) brought back the hatred of Versailles and blamed the people who had signed it for example
“First the Nazis revived the stab in the back 1918 and betrayal through the Treaty of Versailles”
By S. Lee
“The peace Treaty that Germany signed is unfair. It must be cancelled and the land which it lost must be returned, France must be destroyed”
These were the words of Hitler.
The Treaty of Versailles is an important cause because if Germany had not been so dependent on America because of reparations then it would of not mattered so much. However if the Wall Street Crash had not occurred then maybe Germanys democracy would of survived. Hitler certainly used the Treaty as a weapon to help him to power.
Hatred of the Weimar Republic is a factor of Hitler’s rise to power and its eventual collapse gave Hitler his opportunity. The Weimar republic formed after the abdication of the Kaiser in 1919 and had to sign the treaty. This act was always held against it.
In the 1920’s World War I had left Germany with many economic, social, and political problems. In addition to enduring high inflation and a large national debt, Germans were deeply embittered by the harsh terms of the Versailles Treaty, signed in June 1919, which formally ended the war. Among other things, the treaty called for German disarmament and huge reparation payments to the Allies. Unable to meet the payments, Germany's currency collapsed and the German people suffered large financial losses. In January 1923 French and Belgian forces occupied Germany's main industrial region, the Ruhr, claiming that Germany had defaulted on reparation deliveries.
Statesman Gustav Stresemann took over the German government as the head of a broadly based coalition on August 13, 1923, and helped stabilize the country. In 1924 the Allies made it easier for Germany to pay reparation through the Dawes Plan, which established a more realistic payment schedule. In October 1925, Stresemann signed the Treaties of Locarno, which secured Germany against further incursions on its western frontiers. The allies withdrew their occupation forces and in the following year Germany was elected to the League of Nations, an international alliance for the preservation of peace. A new currency, the Reichsmark, was established with much tighter monetary control, and an [next page]