Hitler Chancellor to Dictator in 8 Easy Steps

How did Hitler go from Chancellor to Dicator in 18 months? Y9 History

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[mikelheron20]

@MWcrazyhorse I think youve watched too many episodes of Allo Allo.

[MWcrazyhorse]

@mikelheron20 ye pretty much. Look the nazis had France occupied in ww2. And what did even they do to them? Nothing really. Fun fact: half of France was even simpatico with us. Now vs the soviet union things were uglier. Hitler was a nut, but even he did not choose enemies and attrocities at random.

[mikelheron20]

@MWcrazyhorse Of course we would. I can just imagine the scene. "Pay for the war? Mein Gott! We wouldnt dream of asking you to pay. No ones fault just a misunderstanding really.Best forgotten - let bygones be bygones. And as for those territories we captured - please take them back. Another Lowenbrau?"

[MWcrazyhorse]

@mikelheron20 We would all have had a beer and laughed it off together. Germany (German Fürstentümer) won wars in the past, not just against France. When its over, its over.

[alanbstard4]

@mikelheron20 No I mean those that accept German and French law that certain aspects of ww2 cannot be discussed lest they get 5 years gaol

[alanbstard4]

@mikelheron20 what naked German aggression?

[mikelheron20]

@mikelheron20 whether this exchange of opinions would be permitted! If you dont believe that is so, you really have no understanding at all of the Nazi war aims or mentality. Hitler would have preferred not to go to war with Britain in 1939 - provided he was permitted to take everything he wanted in continental Europe and the lands to the East for "lebensraum." He fought and lost. There's a word that sums it all up - "Tough."

[mikelheron20]

@mikelheron20 But whatever the rights and wrongs were of WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles, WW2 was caused by one thing - naked German aggression. Dress it up all you like but the facts are inescapable. Britain and France's reluctance to go to war is a matter of fact - many would say "shameful" fact. Appeasement (as at Munich, 1938) was followed until it was no longer possible. Had Britain etc. not opposed Hitler, you and I would now be part of the German Empire and I doubt

[mikelheron20]

@mikelheron20 "Weak, corrupt historians" writing about the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War give us a clue. Following the war, German troops continued to occupy parts of northern France and Parisian forts until the last payment of reparations was completed in September 1873, ahead of schedule. The French territories surrendered to Germany became the German imperial province of Elsass-Lothringen (Alsace-Lorraine). Why would they expect to be treated differently?

[mikelheron20]

@MWcrazyhorse If a man throws a lighted match into a warehouse full of combustible materials we can criticise the people who put the flammable materials in there in the first place but the man who lit the match is held to account. Like you (I suspect) I am from the UK and I do not say that Germany was solely responsible for WW1 - but they bear the lions share of the blame. I also wonder how lenient Germany would have been with the losers if they had won WW1.