Birth of Nazism

BIRTH OF NAZISM "Until the German people understand that one can conduct politics only when one has the support of power—and again power. Only so is reconstruction possible… It is not an economic question which faces the German people, it is a political question—how shall the nation’s determination be recovered?" (Bullock, 1962) Adolf Hitler posed this question to the German people in 1923. The face of post World War I Germany was truly battered, …

…the eyes of the German people would have been less glazed over (Krebs, 1976). The ideologies were not foreign, neither was the plan to power as Hitler outlined within Mein Kampf. Speculation and history are the tools we have been given to work with. Where the Nazi movement truly emerged from, the world will never know; but through the looking glass to the past, the footprints of their reign will forever etch the spirit of mankind.