Germany Involved
'Germany role in World War 2: Cause of war, strategy, major allies, victories, blunders, and the top German leaders and generals who
participated in World War 2.'
If anything, Germany was one of the many countries that effected World War 2. It was undoubtedly the most deadly war in the history of mankind. Fifty million people lost their lives. Germany with their Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler, was the country most responsible for starting the war. After five years of war, Germany had paid the price for starting the conflict as they lay virtually destroyed. They had won early battles but, in the end, World War II had been a disaster for Germany. The war was a fight to the finish and they came up short.
Germany was defeated in World War I and they were forced to pay heavy reparations to the victors. Their economy could not take the pressure and
it fell apart. Severe inflation and depression followed. As a
result of the Treaty of Versailles (the official end of World War 1) and the
economic disasters that followed, the German people became very resentful
towards the victors of World War 1, namely France and Great Britain.
Additionally, virtually all of Germany's leaders fought in World War 1 and many
were wounded and they all felt betrayed. They were eager for revenge.
'Germany role in World War 2: Cause of war, strategy, major allies, victories, blunders, and the top German leaders and generals who
participated in World War 2.'
If anything, Germany was one of the many countries that effected World War 2. It was undoubtedly the most deadly war in the history of mankind. Fifty million people lost their lives. Germany with their Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler, was the country most responsible for starting the war. After five years of war, Germany had paid the price for starting the conflict as they lay virtually destroyed. They had won early battles but, in the end, World War II had been a disaster for Germany. The war was a fight to the finish and they came up short.
Germany was defeated in World War I and they were forced to pay heavy reparations to the victors. Their economy could not take the pressure and
it fell apart. Severe inflation and depression followed. As a
result of the Treaty of Versailles (the official end of World War 1) and the
economic disasters that followed, the German people became very resentful
towards the victors of World War 1, namely France and Great Britain.
Additionally, virtually all of Germany's leaders fought in World War 1 and many
were wounded and they all felt betrayed. They were eager for revenge.
Germany Causing the War
Most historians believe that the causes of World War II can be traced to World War I (1914-1918). Americans had fought in that earlier war to "make the world safe for democracy." Those were the words and goals of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. But the peace treaties that ended World War I did not make the world safe for democracy. Instead, they caused bitterness and anger that led to World War II.
Germany and its allies had been the losers in World War I. Germany was stripped of one sixth of its territory and forced to pay huge reparations (payments by a defeated country for the destruction it caused in a war). After World War I, Germany suffered from high unemployment and runaway inflation. German money became almost worthless. Many Germans seethed in anger at the peace treaty. Adolf Hitler, a wounded veteran of World War 1, blamed the economic problems of the allies, that formed the peace terms on Germany. Founded in 1919 as the German Workers’ Party, the group promoted German pride and anti-Antisemitism, and expressed dissatisfaction with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I (1914-1918) and required Germany to make numerous concessions and reparations. Hitler joined this obscure right wing political group - the Nazi party - and, with little competition, rose rapidly in it. He was able to attract some extremely dedicated, capable, and ruthless followers.
The Beer-Hall Putsch was attempted in 1923 with the idea of taking over the Bavarian government. A number of Hitler's followers were killed and others, including Goering, were wounded. Hitler was tried and sentenced to a jail term in Landsberg, Austria. In jail, Hitler wrote the book Mein Kampf in which he spelled out his prejudices, including those violent prejudices toward the Jews, and his plans for Germany's future.
After jail, Hitler continued his political career, advocating an extreme philosophy, and rose rapidly as he accumulated a larger and larger following. After being defeated at the polls in a try for the Presidency, he was eventually appointed Chancellor in 1933 to President Hindenburg, elderly German president and national hero. Although he didn't hesitate to kill anyone who opposed him, he gained control over the heart and soul of the German people by exploiting anger and xenophobia in Germany.The arming of Germany was accelerated. The Third Reich had arrived. The Nazis were in charge! The path to World War 2, a war that would claim 50 million lives, lay ahead. You can find out more in depth information on Adolf Hitler by clicking HERE. At the start of the war, the German Army, was well prepared. They had learned their lessons well in World War I and had spent years perfecting the use of the new weapons of war - tanks, armored divisions, air power, and above all, the strategy of Blitzkrieg which used tanks & mobility to obliterate the enemy before he knows what hit him. |
After World War I, Germany suffered from high unemployment and runaway inflation. German money became almost worthless. Many Germans disliked the peace treaty, and that's one of the reasons why a lot of them were in support with the Nazi Party, and even if they weren't the Germans,were forced to comply with the Nazi Party, or they would be killed. The Holocaust'The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar'(http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust). In World War 2 Europe, being Jewish meant concentration camps & extermination.Six million people perished in the Holocaust. This is considered the most intense genocide campaign in history against any race. it seems incredible that the holocaust could have been initiated by Germany, one of the most advanced nations on the face of the earth.
o the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution”–now known as the Holocaust–came to fruition under the cover of world war, with mass killing centers constructed in the concentration camps of occupied Poland.
Anti-Semitism in Europe did not begin with Adolf Hitler. Though use of the term itself dates only to the 1870s, there is evidence of hostility toward Jews long before the Holocaust–even as far back as the ancient world, when Roman authorities destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and forced Jews to leave Palestine. The Enlightenment, during the 17th and 18th centuries, emphasized religious toleration, and in the 19th century Napoleon and other European rulers enacted legislation that ended long-standing restrictions on Jews. Anti-Semitic feeling endured, however, in many cases taking on a racial character rather than a religion. The roots of Hitler’s particularly virulent brand of anti-Semitism are unclear like many anti-Semites in Germany, he blamed the Jews for the country’s defeat in 1918. Many innocent lives were taken during this time. Many Jews were starved, put into concentration camps, and were starved, mistreated, and abused. Because of the harsh cruelty towards the Jews, and any other race as well from the Nazi Party, America, and their allies made sure that the Nazi power doesn't spread to any other country, and make it a bigger problem than it was. The Germans are definitely one of the country's that affected WW2 greatly. |
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