Thread: Why Germans Supported Hitler
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Old 08-21-2007, 02:28 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by waitingtables View Post
Hitler played on the people with the rhetoric he knew would work. He appealed to their sense of pride after the humiliation Germany suffered in WWI, and the Treaty of Versailles. He also used the terrorist tactic of causing fear in the people and leading them to believe he was the only one who could protect them.
And protect them, he could not during WWII, when the Allies, including Russia, bombed the country. Hitler's head got too big for his own good.
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