The Treaty of Versailles was also another important key aspect of how much of a danger he was to other countries. We know this through his speech. Hitler said: “We demand the cancelation of the Treaty of Versailles”- this could be considered as a threat to Britain and France as they set up the Treaty of Versailles. This quotation was said 10 years before he gained power, proving he will not co-operate even before he was given power. The use of “we demand” shows he will gain by force and is an aim he is willing to do anything to achieve.
The sums demanded by the treaty were so great that they made peace difficult. Nationalists, Communists, and others attacked the new government. There would be a danger to other countries as Hitler said: “we demand land and colonies to feed our people and settle our surplus population.” This is a threat to other countries as they would have to take colonies and land. Another threat would be to disabled people, Jewish and non-German citizens. Firstly because he was not fond of them and secondly because he said: We demand the Union of all Germans to form a greater Germany” This is a large threat to non Germans living in Germany as he would do anything, through force and his private army, to make a better Germany in his opinion.
Some historians say that he restored the economy and lead Germany to greatness again through his actions made after he gained power. He also gave jobless people jobs(1935-1938). These jobs then benefited Germany as they built many things such as roads. I do agree partly with this, but feel as if he had a wrong approach towards Jewish people and discriminating them. He did this by making them wear a yellow Star of David, so that people knew who they were, and sent police men to stand out there shops and refuse sent people away. In the long term this made Jewish families have no income and have to give up valuable possessions or houses. It would drive them out of the country and make their lives very uncomfortable. I believe all through the process of Hitler gaining power he was a threat to a variety of people. When he became leader of the Nazis Party and quickly built up party membership, partly because of his talent in making influential speeches. Which I believe was a good feature of Hitler as these speeches made him able to spread the opinions/views of the Party and his own. He could also make promises, which could also influence the audience. A great example of a person who has changed things, with the help of speech, is Martin Luther King. He played a vital role in the civil rights movement. But would he have changed things without his very effective/phenomenal ability for public speaking? It was just what Hitler chose to do with this power that lead onto threats to Jews, disabled people, other countries and the general public.
In the build up of him gaining power, Hitler also organized a private army he called storm troopers. He used brown-shirted uniforms and the swastika emblem to give his party and the storm troopers--known as the SA--a sense of unity and power. The troopers fought the armies of the Communist, Social Democratic, and other parties who opposed Nazi ideas or tried to break up Nazi Party rallies. By October 1923, the storm troopers numbered 15,000 members. So once again through power and force was he able to control and receive what he wanted. From these actions we can receive information about Hitler’s personality – aggressive, wanting his own way by force and not a peace maker. These traits were shown later in history during ww2.
France and Belgium had sent troops to fill in the space of the chief industrial region in 1923. Communist and nationalist revolts sprung up throughout Germany, and the state of Bavaria was in open conflict with the central government in Berlin. Hitler saw an opportunity among these troubles to overthrow both the Bavarian and national German governments. By doing this it was another stepping stone to his desire of power. This is common to most dictators - Rafael Trujillo who also became idolised like Hitler, wore a sash with the motto God and Trujillo. Both dictators also had a secret police force that tortured and murdered the opposition to his rule. Hitler finally gained power in 1933. However, when Hindenburg died on August 2nd 1934, Hitler officially assumed the title of Fuhrer- supreme head of Germany.
I believe that Hitler was very dangerous (had a great amount of potential threat) which is mainly explained above through his actions and opinions which could lead on with actions causing danger to many. Some reasons for why he is dangerous are more important than others and some are because of the meaning behind his actions. For example: his Party ‘targets’ youth groups, they did this because they need to pass on their beliefs and opinions to the next generation so their ideas can live on. In my opinion a more important reason for why he was so dangerous is the fact that he was able to change things, such as laws, with power. Over the years he gained the power to dictate. Dictatorship has numerous amounts of disadvantages and advantages. But what I have noticed is that after a dictator has ruled they leave a very large ‘death tally.’ For example: the estimated death tally of Francisco Franco is tens to hundreds of thousands. Each dictator also has their own way of management that is usually inspired by other person’s ideas/intentions. Francisco Franco has his own regime which was ‘Francosim’ (stood for traditional Catholic and military values. Whereas Hitler was very keen on the military and navy forces, for defence and attacking. He was also partly inspired by Mussolini.
People have different views in whether or not Hitler mistreated dictator responsibilities or always considered good impacts on the people of his country. (Like I explained above-used unemployed people for things that could benefit the country, roads) A summary of my conclusion: Hitler was dangerous because he was a man of immense power and all men of power are dangerous in their own way.
