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Hilter’s Rise - Document AnalysisSource 1 - Hitler’s SpeechSpeech on the Treaty of Versailles (April 17, 1923)Adolf HitlerWith the armistice begins the humiliation of Germany. If the Republic on the day of its foundation had appealed to the country: Germans, stand together! Up and resist the foe! The Fatherland, the Republic expects of you that you fight to your last breath, then millions who are now enemies of the Republic would be fanatical Republicans. Today they are the foes of the Republic not because it is a Republic but because this Republic was founded at the moment when Germany was humiliated, because it so discredited the new flag that men's eyes must turn regretfully toward the oldflag.So long as this Treaty stands there can be no resurrection of the German people; no social reform of any kind is possible! The Treaty was made in order to bring 20 million Germans to their deaths and to ruin the German nation. But those who made the Treaty cannot set it aside. As its foundation our Movement formulated three demands:1. Setting aside of the Peace Treaty.2. Unification of all Germans.3. Land and soil [Grund und Boden] to feed our nation.Our movement could formulate these demands, since it was not our Movement which caused the War, it has not made the Republic, it did not sign the Peace Treaty.There is thus one thing which is the first task of this Movement: it desires to make the German once more National, that his Fatherland shall stand for him above everything else. It desires to teach our people to understand afresh the truth of the old saying: He who will not be a hammer must be an anvil. An anvil we are today, and that anvil will be beaten until out of the anvil we fashion once more a hammer, a German sword!Note: Text of speech from Aspects of Western Civilization, Volume II, Perry Rogers, ed.; Prentice Hall(2000) Source 2 --331479436880 CartoonThis cartoon by the British cartoonist David Low appeared in the Evening Standard newspaper in July 1936. Hitler goose- steps across the ‘spineless leaders of democracy’. The first 3 steps are labelled ‘Rearmament’, ‘Rhineland’ and ‘Danzig’.-179070213359Source 3 - CartoonThis cartoon of February 1938 by the British cartoonist David Low shows Germany crushing Austria. Next in line is Czechoslovakia. At the back, Britain says to France, who is next-to-last: ‘Why should we take a stand about someone pushing someone else when it’s all so far away?’ Source 4 - Quotes related to Neville Chamberlein (British Prime Minister)If only…we could sit down at a table with the Germans and run through all their complaints and claims with a pencil, this would greatly relieve all tension.Chamberlain, speaking unoffficially to Anthony Eden in 1937. You have only to look at the map to see that nothing we could do could possibly save Czechoslovakia from being overrun by the Germans. Chamberlain, writing to his sister in 1938. How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing. Chamberlain, speaking in a radio broadcast about the Sudetenland crisis, 27 September 1938. Chamberlain read this statement to a cheering crowd in front of 10 Downing St. after signing the Munich Agreement and said; "My good friends this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace in our time.” 1939A clever plan of selling off your friends in order to buy off your enemies.A comment in the British newspaper, The Manchester Guardian, February 1939.Source 5Winston Churchill, Britain’s second prime minister during WW2 and a critic of Chamberlain during World War II, proved prescient in a speech before the House of Commons when he declared, “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.”

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