I know that Germany surrendered, but I've heard that the blame was passed on to a new political party. I also remember that the Jews were later blamed for Germany losing the war. I'm working on a school paper and I can't find anything on the net. Any help would be deeply appricitated.
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Germany agreed to an armistice the Kaiser abdicated and fled to Holland.Sailors revolted in Kiel and revolution started spreading.  Germany was occupied and dissarmed, and made to pay for the war. What was left of the german army put down most of the rebellion.
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There was no Nazi party before Hitler. Hitler was in it from the beginning.\n\nhttp://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/party.htm
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Germany was a major ally of Great Britain and the US after the war.  We extended huge credits to the Reichsbank for them to build up their industries and infrastructure so they could pay the massive war compensations (reparations) that we demanded of them.  The German economy flourished but it took a major hit along with the US in the 1929 stock market crash.  When Hitler came to power in 1933, he used the revived German economy to make arms and build up the armed forces, again using credit from the west, negotiated by his finance minister, Schacht.  By this point, we were appeasing the Germans, keeping them happy to avoid another war.  By the mid 1930's, the new German military was ready.  The air force was tested in the Spanish civil war and then Hitler started taking back German lands.  Poland was last and we all know what happened after that...
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1. The Treaty of Versailles was known as a Diktat in Germany, where it was seen as an imposed and humiliating treaty. The Treaty stated that Germany was responsible for starting WW1. As the reasons for WW1 were actually much more complicated, and Germans were led to believe they were in the right by their Kaiser, this seemed very unfair. Plus, Germany now had a democratic government.\n\nThe treaty forced Germany to pay huge reparations. This seemed impossible as Germany's economy was in tatters. Also, Germany lost a lot of land, significantly the Polish Corridor, which split Prussia in two. So right from the start, the Treaty was resented. Hitler was able to exploit that bitterness as part of his Nazi campaigns. \n\nBy the time Hitler was in power, people in Britain sympathised with Germany's anger about the Treaty. Therefore many accepted it when Hitler broke the terms.\n\n2. The Nazi-Soviet pact occurred in 1939. It was a cynical pact between two dictators, Hitler and Stalin, who planned to invade Poland and share it between themselves.\n\nGermany invaded Poland in September 1939.\n\nThe Battle of Britain took place in the early years of the War. \n\nD-Day occured in 1944, when Allied troops landed at Normandy.
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Go here, it might help.\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html
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good project...I don't know all the answers to your questions but I bet if you googled it with the phrase\n*German Nationalism post WWII* you'd get a lot of info.\n(use the asterisk's to lock in the topic)
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To the first ignorant poster:  the United Nations, composed of several nations made Israel a nation.  People really need to learn history.  It might also interest the poster to learn that Israel might not have become a state if it weren't for the hatred shown to them after they tried to rightfully claim their very own homes after the Holocaust.\n\nThe British imposed a severe limit on immigration right after the war.  Many nations would not allow the Jews who were fortunate enough to survive to even reside in their very own countries!  There was no choice other than to make Israel a state.\n\nBefore pointing a finger at the Jews, look at the situation surrounding the issue.
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Yes we know this already. The Mexicans lost a war that they foolishly believed would win and they paid for what they lost both with blood and money.\n\nThe people who keep saying "the border crossed" them are idiots and/or sore losers. If they were German they'd complain about Alsace-Lorraine and western Poland not being Germany's cause of World War I and II.\n\nTo cufin01... The Germans were also made to surrender at gunpoint... Duh. All wars end with one side being FORCED to surrender something, or is your liberal utopia too pleasant to get out of? \n\nDo note that I dont agree 100% with how History turns out, but are you ready for another war then (which is the only way your "grieviances" will ever be redressed)?
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Whether the Holocaust really happened or not only matters for Israel, and Germany, cause Israel benefits from that claim, and i think that Germany is still compensating for Israel..\nBut what matters for all of us, is the possibility of such a terrible thing to happen to any one, or any group.\nA lots of terrible things like the Holocaust are happening in the world right now.. Like the hunger in some african countries, the diseases, and lots more.\nSome estimate that 100,000 people have been killed in Iraq. Isn't that a Holocaust?\nI hope we work to prevent Holocausts, rather than argue about an ugly part of our human history..
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The answer to these few questions will help out:\n- When was the US Stock Market Crash?\n- What had Germany just admitted guilt to (think of a big treaty named after a big place and a big event in history that had just happened)?\n- What political party began to take hold in the German government?\n- Who did the Germans stereotype as being responsible for the economic depression?
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You are an idiot!  Don't you know antthing about WWII history?  The Japanese were warned several times and would not stop fighting.  The only way to end the war would have been to invade Japan causing millions of Japanese to die.  They were finatical about the war and would stop at nothing.  This was the only way to stop them.  Thank God some of you bleedy heart liberals weren't around during WWII.  We'd probably be speaking German or Japanese right now if you were.
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Although anti-Semitism had existed since the establishment of Christianity Jews were only one of Hitler's target groups for elimination. In his quest to purify and strengthen the German race Hitler ordered the killings of Jews, Blacks, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Handicapped persons, the mentally ill hospitals, the elderly, the homeless, Slavs, and even World War One Veterans who had lost limbs or had otherwise become dependent. The reason Jews seemed to have been singled out in the Holocaust is because Hitler used them as a scapegoat for the problems following WW1. Hitler gave the downtrodden German people a face to put the blame of their dire situation. He accused the Jews, because they were different, of bringing down Germany from the inside. You would have to admit that Hitler's greatest achievement was making a whole country believe that less than 1% of their population, the Jews, were to blame for WW1 and it's consequences. With everyone's attention and anger directed at the Jews Hitler was free to eliminate other "unacceptable" people, many his own countrymen, without opposition or even notice. The reason that it's usually a Jewish person who speaks at assemblies is because they made up the largest portion of the Holocaust therefore others didn't survive or have likely passed on.
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look up world war 2 you will get the facts.also if you know any jewish people who had relatives in germany poland and other countries ask them and their parents and if possible their grandparents.
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World War was was inevitable. If it wasn't started by the assassination, it would've been started by something else.\n\nHowever, Germany should not assume the blame. The Brits, Russians, French, and Austrians are just as much at fault.
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That's an interesting point. I don't know if you could say conservatives or liberals were defeated because it was all about the war. Liberals were sort of defeated last time because they got beaten so badly and now they are afraid to be liberals so they are moderates. Conservatives sort of got defeated this time and now everyone has to be more in the middle, which is kind of a good thing
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It's highly unlikely that you'll get the information you've asked for because opinion polling, statistical analysis and predictive modelling techniques weren't around then.  I'd suggest using the results of the elections after the war as a guide as well as empirical evidence from the time (newsreels, editorials etc.)\n\nOf course Messers Hitler, Stalin and Moussolini didn't really have to bother with 'approval' as they were totalitarian dictators.
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Well- guess your knowledge of history is ehavily influenced by those propaganda sites you read- up until 1973 the USA provided Israel with VERY FEW arms, in fact most of Israel's arsenal was bought from Europe or self built.  Even today with weaponry they purchase- they often strip the elctronics out and replace them with their own, superior versions.  A case in point was with the bombing of the Iranian nuclear reactor in the eighties- American airforce generals were flabbergasted at the performance of the Israeli F16s since the American ones were not capable of the same level of performance.\n\nAnd guess what- the drive for a state in the are started in the late 19th century- it was just that it was finally succesful after WWII.  And hey- guess what,Jews liberated from the concentration camps, and trying to return to their homes- were often attacked by their former neighbors.\n\nSo wehere would you have put a Jewsih state?  In Africa where it would have started a whole colnial issue?  In South America where they would not have been welcomed/  IN Europe where they had just seen their friends and family murdered?  In the end- Israel with their millenia long connection to it was the only option.\n\nAs for the UN partition plan- it gave countries to both Israel and the Palestinans.  Israel accepted the plan, but the Arab league decided to make sure their would be no Jewish state- and five countries attacked Israel as the state was proclaimed.  And Israel was victorous- the ARabs lost, and the Palestinians were the big losers- with their Arab brethren stealing their land- and forcing them into refugee camps.  And lets not forget- the estimate of Palestinan refugees was 400-600 thousand- the estinated number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries 800 thousand-1 million.\n\nWhat happened to the Jewish refugees- they were absorbed by the state, made full citizens and helped to establish themselv es after having all their money and possessions stolen by the Arab governments- unlike the Palestinian refugees who were deprived of their rights, denied citizenship in the countreies of those occupying them (Egypt of Jordan), and left to starve - until the UN started a special agency just to deal with their problem!