Adolf Hitler Research Paper

The first reason why Chamberlain appeased Hitler was that Britain was not physically or psychologically prepared to go to war against Germany. The country of Britain had survived a brutal world war 20 years prior but were left weakened and unfit to fight as a result. Chamberlain was investested in rebuilding and restoring his country and did not have the means to re-arm. After the citizens had witnessed the horrors of war, the cost of engaging a war with Nazi Germany in 1938 did not seem imperative. The British empire had lost over 700,000 British soldiers in World War One which amounted to approximately 2% of the country’s population in the 1910’s. Small towns had lost up to 8% of their citizens, thus many families had been devastated as

Germany signed to pay £22 billion in reparations for greatly damaged countries such as France and Belgium. Germany was expected to pay war debt as well as paying for the cost of the war within their own borders. A collection of once German cultures areas were split and separated from the motherland as seen by the introduction of the Polish corridor. John Maynard Keynes, an economist that attended the meeting at Versailles, became frustrated over the harsh conditions placed on Germany and stated that it would inevitably lead to disaster in Germany along with another war as backlash. “I cannot leave this subject as though its just treatment wholly depend either on our own pledges or economic facts. The policy of reducing Germany to servitude for a generation, of degrading the lives of millions of human beings, and of depriving a whole nation of happiness should be abhorrent and detestable, - abhorrent and detestable, even if it were possible, even if it enriched ourselves, even if it did not sow the decay of the whole civilized life of Europe. Some preach it in the name of Justice. In the great events of man's history, in the unwinding of the complex fates of nations Justice is not so simple. And if it were, nations are not authorized, by religion or by natural morals, to visit on the children of their enemies the misdoings of

Germany eventually annexed Austria which was forbidden in by the Treaty of Versailles. Chamberlain noticed the uprisings commencing within culturally German areas but attempted to isolate Britain from these various issues. As a supporter of self-determination, Chamberlain accepted that the German people had the right to decide as one. With the hopes that Hitler would be satisfied with owning Czechoslovakia for its population of Germans, Britain and Germany signed the Munich agreement allowing Hitler to annex Czechoslovakia. Germany was suffering from poverty and unemployment, so much that the German currency at the time (marc) was essentially worth nothing. Countries such as Germany issued conscriptions as a means of tackling unemployment. Chamberlain wanted Germany to succeed in order to diminish possibilities of war and to solidify a barrier against communist Russia. Appeasement was utilized once more as Germany broke the regulations of the Treaty of