For this paper, we will examine two of the most influential articles/ journals ever written. The “Treaty of Versailles”, an article composed by the allied powers (Britain, France and the United States), which imposed sanctions on the Germans and blames Germany totally for the first world war. The Second article that we will be comparing it to is Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf; which are the accounts Hitler composed while he was in “prison for treason” (***). This book focuses on how the Jews are taking over and that Germans are the superior race that was chosen to defeat the Jewish people. These are the two articles that historians to this day still debate on whether or not they are the cause of World War 2. In order to properly examine these articles,
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Hitler will later be charged “in 1923, for efforts to overthrow the government of Bavaria and was sentenced for treason” (***). In prison he will compose the journal he calls Mein Kampf (my struggles), this journal talks about Hitler’s idea that Germany is the last nation to not be overthrown by the Jews who he believes are taking over all the other nations. In this article we find two main points his concern about land size and protection and Jewish control. In the article we find that Hitler is very concerned about the amount of space his country possesses. He realizes that super powers like the United States, Russia, and China have nearly “10 times greater the amount of land”. (***) Hitler in a sense is calling out the unfairness and believes that a “country needs to be large in order to provide a nation of freedom of existence” (***). His plan was to acquire land by conquering parts of Eastern Europe and Russia. This is due to his belief that the amount of land possessed by a country can not be decide upon by a original bias and nor can it be solely decided by the countries’ population or natural resource requirement. Hitler is noticing that the areas in the middle East are being divided up onto small countries and is beginning to believe that is what the treaty of Versailles is beginning to induct on his country. He believes that do to the fact that the German people are “guardians of the highest humanity on earth” (***). That it is their obligation to be better then all other countries; and make sure that German does not fall prey to being dissected into smaller and smaller countries to the point where there is no longer a
Hitler will later be charged “in 1923, for efforts to overthrow the government of Bavaria and was sentenced for treason” (***). In prison he will compose the journal he calls Mein Kampf (my struggles), this journal talks about Hitler’s idea that Germany is the last nation to not be overthrown by the Jews who he believes are taking over all the other nations. In this article we find two main points his concern about land size and protection and Jewish control. In the article we find that Hitler is very concerned about the amount of space his country possesses. He realizes that super powers like the United States, Russia, and China have nearly “10 times greater the amount of land”. (***) Hitler in a sense is calling out the unfairness and believes that a “country needs to be large in order to provide a nation of freedom of existence” (***). His plan was to acquire land by conquering parts of Eastern Europe and Russia. This is due to his belief that the amount of land possessed by a country can not be decide upon by a original bias and nor can it be solely decided by the countries’ population or natural resource requirement. Hitler is noticing that the areas in the middle East are being divided up onto small countries and is beginning to believe that is what the treaty of Versailles is beginning to induct on his country. He believes that do to the fact that the German people are “guardians of the highest humanity on earth” (***). That it is their obligation to be better then all other countries; and make sure that German does not fall prey to being dissected into smaller and smaller countries to the point where there is no longer a