Student Solution

-->

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
– Nelson Mandela

1 University

1 Course

1 Subject

DQ 3- Contemporary history

DQ 3- Contemporary history

Q Analyze Adolph Hitler's rise to power and the policies he used to rule Germany. The following statement was taken from a contemporary account of Germany in 1939: "Though the Fuhrer's anti-Semitic program furnished the National Socialist party in the first instances with a nucleus and a rallying-cry, it was swept into office by two things with which the 'Jewish Problem' did not have the slightest connection. On the one side was economic distress and the revulsion against Versailles: on the other, chicanery and intrigue...Hitler and his party promised the unhappy Germans a new heaven and a new earth, coupled with the persecution of the Jews. Unfortunately, a new heaven and earth cannot be manufactured to order. But a persecution of the Jews can..." How do you interpret this contemporary account of the persecution of people who are Jewish? Elaborate.

View Related Questions

Solution Preview

Adolf Hitler was a great spokesperson and this skill helped him a lot to come into the power in Germany and also the economic conditions of Germany helped him to be accepted by the people of Germany. He was a strong man and he believed that Germany was treated badly in the Treaty of Versailles and thus, he stood up for Germany.