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The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed at the end of WW1 on June 28, 1919. The treaty officially ended the war between the Allies and Germany, and enforced strict punishment on Germany for their part in the war. Germany had their Air Force and Navy abolished, the size of their Army restricted, had lands, thousands of square miles, owned by the German empire given away to countries such as Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Lithuania, France, Poland and Belgium; Stripped Germany of any overseas colonies and most damaging of all Germany was made to pay harsh reparations to the countries it fought against in the war. (Bottom 2003)
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The attempt failed and Hitler spent nine months of a five year sentence behind bars where he wrote Mein Kampf. Hitler’s book stated beliefs such as the genetically and cultural superiority of Germans to Jews. Hitler also stated plans to reclaim Germany’s Pre-War military powers, and borders. Upon his release the Nazi party continued growing, with the SA an almost constant presence on the Streets, collecting money, breaking up Communist and Socialist meetings, infiltrating police departments and attacking Jewish Germans. In 1929, German voters turned to Hitler’s Nazi party, as Germany’s economic situation worsened and mass unemployment was becoming rampant. President of the Weimar republic, Paul Von Hindenburg, appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany in January, 1933. With the power given to Hitler he used the SA to enforce a boycott of Jewish businesses, banned the majority of trade unions and other political parties, stripped the state governments of powers, and took control of police agencies and the judiciary. Hitler emphasized the German peoples national pride, used Nazi rallies as a chance to create and spread the ‘Hitler myth’ by the use of charismatic speeches, posters, introducing the symbol of the swastika and the use military pageantry, all of which solidified his support from the German populace, giving them pride again after the national embarrassment of the Versailles Treaty. (Cusack

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