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Date Posted: 18:58:25 05/15/03 Thu
Author: Mr John D Clare
Subject: Hitler's opinions of the Treaty of Versailles
In reply to: annabel 's message, "Adolf hitlers views on the treaty of versailles" on 01:02:15 05/15/03 Thu

Hitler hated the Treaty of versailles. In Mein Kampf he called it 'the greatest villainy of the century', and he called the German politicians who signed it 'miserable and degenerate criminals' (or 'the November criminals').

There is some stuff on this on the website - you can get an overview of Hitler's aims if you look at: <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.johndclare.net/RoadtoWWII2.htm">http://www.johndclare.net/RoadtoWWII2.htm</a>
which gives you a little information on why he hated the Treaty.

One of the main reasons he hated it was because it meant that all the efforts of the army were wasted: 'And so it had all been in vain. In vain all the sacrifices and privations; in vain the hours in which, with mortal fear clutching at our hearts, we nevertheless did our duty; and in vain the death of two millions who died.'

He also hated it because of what it said. Again in Mein Kampf Hitler wrote: 'Each point of that Treaty could have been engraved on the minds and hearts of the German people and burned into them until sixty million men and women would find their souls aflame with a feeling of rage and shame...'

You can see a list - ie the 'each point of the treaty' which Hitler talked about in Mein Kampf - of reasons why the German people (and therefore Hitler) hated the Treaty at: <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.johndclare.net/peace_treaties5.htm">http://www.johndclare.net/peace_treaties5.htm</a>
This page will allow you to go through what Hitler hated about the treaty point by point.

Finally, you can tell what Hitler thought about the Treaty of Versailles from what he did in the years after 1933 when he was in power:
1935 - Rearmament (Hitler clearly hated the reduction of Germany's military power)
1936 - Rhineland (Hitler clearly detested the demilitarised zone)
1938 - Anschluss/ Sudetenland (Hitler clearly hated the way the treaty denied the German people self-determination)

There are some links from both my pages that you might wish to suss out, or you could go to the History Learning site for another broad overview: <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/germany_and_rearmament.htm">http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/germany_and_rearmament.htm</a>

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