The Treaty Of Versailles At The Completion Of World War

What responsibility did each of the “Big Three” have for the failure of the Versailles Treaty to bring peace to Europe? Be sure to discuss what each wanted to accomplish.

Hitler’s desire for power was one that was not a simple want, but a raging desire fueled by his anger and ideas. This desire was strong enough that he even wrote a book about it prior to achieving his position as chancellor. Mein Kampf or My Struggle, which contained “revelations concerning the nature of his character and his blueprint for Germany 's future served as a warning to the world. A warning that was mostly ignored.” (Rise of Hitler). Hitler labeled the blonde haired, blue eyed people of Germany as Aryans. This Aryan race is what he considered to be superior among the rest of the world. He considered the Jewish people to be scum and the cause of all of Germany’s problems. This belief was not just some type of prejudice carried by a man. This hatred spread across the country like a virus and eventually led to the extermination of 11 million people (Rosenberg). Six million of these people were Jews, accounting for two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population

Moreover, as an example of Nazism’s relentless deconstruction of Jewish character, the title also served as a proponent of both “Gleichschaltung” and the Führer Principle, by discrediting and denigrating the Jews, an enemy was defined and targeted for the non-Jewish population to “coordinate” behind their “Führer” against.

It is extremely evident that Jews were the main target for dire judgmental opinions, but there was one man who had a passion for Germany; he believed he was the ‘saviour’ of Germany, this man served in the first world war, and it was then, near the end of the war, recovering from a war wound, when Germany was weak and crumbling, he made a vow to himself, that he would be the one, to make Germany strong, he was: Adolf Hitler.

The cruelty towards Jews didn’t begin right from the mass killing of the minority, but rooted back to Europeans, and how they believed they were the superior race. Under this notion, Germany

Hitler targeted the Jews in Mein Kampf, blaming them for the loss of war, which people agreed on. Hitler believed that he was “acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending [himself] against the Jew, [he is] fighting for the work of the Lord”(“Mein Kampf: Jewish Virtual Library” 6). He had convinced himself that the Jews were dragging down the Aryans, Hitler’s supreme race, from rightfully ruling the world. The “struggle for world domination” was an “ongoing racial, cultural, and political battle between Aryans and Jews” (“Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf”12). Hitler could not trust the Jews who he believed to be founded upon lies (“Mein Kampf: Jewish Virtual Library” 6). These views were to be spread throughout the country even in school classrooms. The Hitler Youth program, which Liesel was in, was established to do so. When Hans Junior spots Liesel reading a book, he questions her. “She should be reading Mein Kampf,’ he comments towards Hans. The idea of being superior to

Throughout Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler provides a perfect example of how and where these Nazis had gotten their persuasive skills. Hitler talks about how people should not only be educated and developed mentally, but physically as well. He then ties this into the idea of racial purity. Hilter clearly and thoroughly depicts his ultimate goal of having a pure nation or an “Aryan race.” Throughout Mein Kampf, Hitler writes in such a way that is actually convincing to the reader, no matter what beliefs they have.

“The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures as a survival mechanism”. This quote was spoken by David Duke, an anti semite who believe in racism and denies the holocaust. David Duke is the proof that Jews have been lied against and are hated. This quote reflects on the history of the Jews who have been killed over the centuries through lies and propaganda. Blood Libels during the MIddle Ages and propaganda during the Holocaust used lies in order to persuade the killings of the Jews, however the Christians during the Blood Libels could have thought the Jews did something wrong and had trials while the Nazi’s just hated them and killed them without trials.

Although I already knew of man’s inhumanity to man, the tour of the Museum of Tolerance opened my eyes in a new sense. All the questions I had come up with were answered, and I learned of many other incidents were the human race made mistakes. I learned that the Jews were the only group singled out for total organized annihilation by the Nazis. Every single Jew was to be killed according to the Nazis' plan. Nazi soldiers raided the Jews homes and and took them to camps where they were forced to work or be gassed. The whole family was taken, but only those capable of working long and hard were spared. The explanation of the Nazis' hatred of the Jew rests on their distorted world view that all of history was a racial struggle. They considered the Jews a race whose goal was world domination and who were a threat to Aryan dominance. They believed that all of history was a fight between races which should end in the triumph of the superior Aryan race. In their eyes, the Jews' racial origin made them criminals

“Being a Jew or a German is a part of the blood” (Feldman,), this is a statement from the Nuremberg Laws, which was consigned to the Jews in September of 1935 ("United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."). The Nuremberg Laws consisted of five discriminating guidelines such as: 1. “The “Reich Citizenship” (it stated that only a person of “German or related blood” could be a citizen, have political rights, or could hold office), 2. the “Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor” (this made it illegal for Jews and non-Jews to get married or engaged in sexual relations together), 3. Jews were not allowed to have non-Jewish female servants under forty-five years old, 4. Jews were forbidden to fly the German flag, 5. (being a Jew is a part of a person’s blood) (Feldman,)”. Jews were not able to eat, shop, or even use the restroom in certain places. Children that went to school were taught anti-Semitic lessons, and the Jewish children were taunted and chaffed, not by peers’ alone, but teachers as well. This dreadful method compelled children to refuse attending school ("United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.").

“If the International Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be a Bolshevising of the Earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, But the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.”

(Hitler’s Book “Mein Kampf”) The Nazis claimed that the Jewish people and religion was the source of their downfall, and the genocide of the Jewish people was their only option.

“In my speech before the Reichstag on the first of September 1939, I spoke of two matters: first, since we are forced into war, neither the threat of weapons nor a period of transition shall conquer us; second, if world Jewry launches another war in order to destroy the Aryan nations of Europe, it will not be the Aryan nations that will be destroyed, but the Jews...Once the Germans Jews laughed at my prophecy. I do not know whether they are still laughing, or whether they are laughing on the other side of their faces. I can simply repeat — they will stop laughing altogether, and I will fulfill my prophecy in this field too.”

In a truly appalling collection of half-truths, lack of methodical research and racial myths, Ilaiah’s book has the dubious distinction of making Hitler’s Mein Kampf look like a literary masterpiece in comparison. Ilaiah shares much else with Hitler, notably his obsession with race and inventing racial categories where they do not even exist.

By 1921, Hitler was leading the National Socialist German Workers' Party. He was a very effective speaker and captivated audiences for hours. He was persuasive and told people what they wanted to hear. Because of this, he was a very successful propaganda artist. Driven by Germany's loss in WWI and humiliation, which was a result of the terms in the treaty of Versailles, Hitler found many followers who sympathized with his cause. After his political group failed an attempt to overpower the Bavarian government, he was arrested and jailed for nine months. While imprisoned, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle), which was his autobiography, and it was full of his political ideas as well as the policies for what would become the Nazi organization. Later, he would use this book to spread his ideas and indoctrinate people into the Nazi party. At one point in time, he tried to destroy all other books in Germany. He required that Mein Kampf be taught in the schools, and children learned at a very young age that they were to be Nazis and support Hitler.