Germanys people were never under the control of a madman.

Adolf Hitler had sought power and attention for long before he was powerful, originally seen as a
fool. Hitler came from a poor background, abused by his father, a state worker. He enters the
military and serves in world war one, gaining a firsthand experience of the German suffering.
During his time, he also meets some Jewish soldiers, later calling them cowardly and weak.
This one experience helped germinate the seed of racism within his mind.

In the 1920s there is a renaissance of new arts, jazz music, and womens rights. Conservative
Germans are upset about tradition being left behind. Romanticism is still in public favor, a movie
depicting the reality of world war one is banned. Jews are a religious minority. Some still blame
them for the death of Jesus, others attack them for having high status jobs. Anti-semitism is
casual, yet both groups intermarry.

After his time in the military, Hitler moves to Bavaria from his native Austria. He had given up
hope on going to art school in Vienna, and even had been homeless for a spell there. His pre-
existing hatred of Jews may have been fostered during this time, since many German Jews had
high-ranking jobs despite being the minority. In Munich, Hitler pours energy into joining a newly
formed group, the Nazionalsozialists. He goes to a beer hall in Munchen, hops on a table and
attempts a putsch. Despite his zeal which would come to his aid as fuehrer, he is arrested.
Lucky for him, even without the pulpit he was a very convincing speaker, like Reinhardt the fox,
and so he weaseled his way out of much trouble. In a situation where he mightve gotten life in
prison, he only gets five years, of which he serves only a few months.

At the end of the twenties, turmoil strikes again. The economy goes belly-up and their money
has no worth. Average people would have their life savings liquefied and their dreams
destroyed. Millions were unemployed. Germanys reparation debts began to be paid behind
schedule, so the French began to occupy the Ruhr, which was their industrial center. The
resentment of the Versailles Treaty brought the urge for action to millions of civilians.

Hitler promised to solve everything with law and order. He understood the hatred of the rest of
Europe due to the war he served in. He promises that nationalism will solve the issue. He has a
vehement spirit in all his speeches and brings many to anger and violence. The already weak
Weimar democracy died, ironically, during his election.
The Weimar republic was a short-lived, doomed system. The average German resented the
effects of the Versailles Treaty and didnt accept the loss of the war, as well as the extreme
economic conditions. Political groups were so diverse that they had nothing in common. The
drawing The Republic illustrates this with fat bankers, the poor, and a Nazi holding up their own
letter, their own say in the government, shakily. Many were at the end of their ropes and ready
to accept whatever solution anyone offered.

During his victory, he started book burnings and punishing freedom of speech. Democracies are
fragile because there is always going to be a fringe group going against freedom, and it is
difficult to impossible to eliminate this group. Many examples of Nationalism were present in this
election, such as the call to ban muslims. Democracy will always be fragile.