Hitlers Rise to Power

Before Hitler rose to power the people of Germany were living close to poverty. In a county were the inflation rate was so high people had to be paid on a daily basis as three days after they were paid their previous wage would barely buy them a loaf of bread. The inflation rate was so high because of the world wide great depression. On top of this Germany was still being forced to pay large war debt to Britain and France as part of the Treaty of Versailles. Which stated that Germany must repay both counties costs associated with world war one. Germany could not afford to pay these expenses and as a result they began to print off mass amounts of money, the more money they printed of the lower the value of their money became which lead their inflation into a spiral.

The German people felt that the Treaty of Versailles was the reason for their counties poverty because of the money being paid to France and Britain. Also because of the loss of productive agricultural land taken away from Germany as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. Aldof Hitler, a very charismatic German man who rose to power in the 1920's and into the early 1930's by identifying this belief and promising the people of Germany that he would get back the land that was rightfully Germanys and help bring them out of poverty. Which would bring them back to be a world power.

In 1933 Hitler rose to power. Once in power, he eliminated all opposition and launched an ambitious program of world domination. He did this by building up his armed forces and reintroducing compulsory conscription, which meant that very German man of a certain age had to join the army for a period of service. Using this army he began to take back the land that Germany lost as part of the Treaty of Versailles. He then took control of Austria. These were breaches of the Treaty of Versailles, which stated that Germany was not allowed to build up its forces or take back the lands they had lost. The British and French government saw these breaches of the Treaty but let Germany continue with it to keep peace. This is called appeasement, appeasement is defined as the policy of granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace.

Hitler then made what he claimed would be his last demand, To take control of parts of Czechoslovakia then after that he would stop invasions. He also threatened war if he didn't get it. Chamberlain the British prime minister