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Hitler’s Rise to Power. Experiences in WWI A. Hitler was a soldier in WWI fighting on the side of Germany. B. He believed that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair to Germany. 1. Was angry about reparations and war guilt clause.
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Experiences in WWI A. Hitler was a soldier in WWI fighting on the side of Germany. B. He believed that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair to Germany. 1. Was angry about reparations and war guilt clause. 2. Believed that Germany had been stabbed in the back by Jews and traitors.
ABOVE: Adolf Hitler as a soldier during World War War, 1914. ABOVE: One of Hitler’s oil paintings. (Historians rate Hitler as a mediocre painter).
II. Mein Kampf A. German word for “my struggle,” which was the title of Hitler’s book. B. In 1923, Hitler was jailed for “The Beer Hall Putsch,” in which he tried to incite a revolution against Germany’s weak Weimar Republic government. C. While in jail, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, in which he blamed Germany’s struggles on the Treaty of Versailles and Jews while using the stab in the back theory.
III. View of Religion and Race A. Hitler did not like the teachings of Jesus because religion made God seem higher than Hitler. B. Hitler felt that creating a nation that was free of non-Aryan or “inferior races” was his god given mission. C. The goal of the eugenics movement was to produce “genetically perfect” children and to discourage “race mixing.”
