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In 1919 few would have thought that the Nazi Party, starting as a gang of unemployed soldiers would become the legal government of Germany by 1933. A once obscure corporal, Adolf Hitler, would become the chancellor of Germany in fourteen years. With a grisly total of thirty-seven casualties, including nine million dead combatants World War I ended in 1918. Resulting in a sense of injured German national pride, German propaganda had not prepared the nation for defeat. Those military and political leaders who were responsible claimed that Germany had been "stabbed in the back" by its left-wing politicians, Communists, and Jews. The Weimar Republic, a new government, tried to establish a democratic course. Extreme political parties from both the right and left struggled violently for control. The new regime could neither handle the depressed economy nor the rampant lawlessness and disorder. As the victorious allies punished Germany severely, the German population swallowed the bitter pill of defeat. Germany was disarmed and forced to pay reparations to France and Britain for the huge costs of war, in the treaty of Versailles
Adolf Hitler's attempt at an armed overthrow of local authorities in Munich failed miserably. The Nazi Party seemed doomed to fail and its leaders, including Hitler, were later jailed and charged with high treason. However, Hitler used the courtroom at his public trial as a propaganda platform, ranting for hours against the Weimar government. By the end of the trial Hitler had actually gained support for his courage to act. The right-wing judges sympathized with Hitler and sentenced him to only five years in prison, with eligibility for early parole. After one year Hitler was released from prison. Light sentences were given to other Nazi leaders also. Hitler wrote volume one of Mein Kampf (My Struggle) while in prison, which was published in 1925. Ideas of German nationalism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Bolshevism were what Hitler detailed in this book. "Linked with Social Darwinism, the human struggle that said that might make right, Hitler's book became the ideological bas! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Nazi Party was resurrected after Hitler was released from prison. Waiting for an opportune time
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