The story begins with Hitler as the leader of the National Socialists in post-war Germany. The National Socialists or Nazis as they under which moniker they would become famous, were a small, Bavarian fringe party who attempted to overthrow the Weimar Republic in a Munich beer hall in 1923. After its dismal failure, Hitler was sentenced to prison where he wrote Mein Kampf, a quasi-autobiography and his justification of his future actions. This book provides a valuable insight into his mind that few had

Great Britain was in the midst of the Ten Year Plan where the idea was to avoid conflict for ten years in order to stabilize the economy and get the nation back on its feet and out of the then, worldwide depression. Even more importantly, it wanted the nation of Germany built back up because they badly needed the export market and greatly increased potential revenue a resurgent Germany would bring to the world economy. This was a nation with a larger population than either the United Kingdom or France and a normally larger economy and its absence created not only a power but an economic vacuum. Not only did the British feel guilt about the penalties imposed on the Germans by Versailles, they also needed the increased business that only a more powerful Germany could create and support.

at the outbreak of World War II. In it he states, "Only adequately large space on this earth assures a nation freedom of existence." This may or may not have been a legitimate statement but it was crucial for through his droive to achieve this, he precipated World War II.

Once again their was no reaction form the two countries. The British were busy with their empire and rebuilding their economy, letting the French deal with Europe. The French, though, were in no position to take exception to the German manuverings. The French people had just elected a communist-socialist government headed by a Jewish prime minister, Monsieur Blum. Along with the new very working class oriented social policies this infuriated the French upper class. The government almost fell during massive rioting in Paris, partially precipated by the Germans and Hitler felt supremely confident.

France was in a situation that while being to similar to that of Great Britain was also fundamentally different. Being the nation which did most of the fighting against the Germans and the one that lost the most men, France had a deep-seated mistrust and even hatred of the Germans. For the French, if the Germans never dragged themselves back out of poverty, that would be too soon. The French had lost between one-third and one-fourth of all French men during the Great War. Due to this, the birth rate was disastrously low and added on to this was the fact that northern France had suffered tremendous damage from the war. But even with these massive injuries to the nation, French society could not unify for long against the Germans.

His actions and decisions were not just statecraft but almost poetic and fluid in his first years, hence the term dance. He maneuvered perfectly between the mutual French and British suspicion of the other and their conflicting interests. He knew just how far and when to push e

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