This resulted in a very weak post-war democratic regime in Germany. In addition to that, Germany was divided between ‘western’ and ‘eastern’ political and social orientations. Today, when Germany is a modern liberal ‘western’ country it's hard to figure it out, but before World War 2, Germany was mostly dominated by the 'eastern' orientation that rejected western liberalism and democracy, and had a militarist aggressive orientation facing east, and the 'western' orientation, which represented peaceful liberalism, was a minority. However, this minority orientation gove

Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in a small Austrian village close to the German border, the son of a border customs clerk and a housemaid. As a teenager, he began to develop an artistic talent. At age 16 he quit high school. At age 17 he applied for the Vienna academy of fine arts, but was rejected. When he was 14 his father died, and when he was 18 his loving mother had cancer. A Jewish doctor treated her, but despite costly and painful treatment she died. He was then 18, and alone in the world.

His political opponents constantly misjudged him until it was too late, and so in January 30, 1933, at age 44, after two days of political negotiations, Adolph Hitler became the prime minister of Germany. It was supposed to be a coalition government, only 3 of the 12 cabinet members were Nazis, but Hitler now had the full authority of a prime minister, including emergency authorities, and got control of the police. In addition, he controlled his party's 500,000 strong "brown shirts" militia that used brutal violence in city streets.

Hitler, finally recovered from his injury, and still officially a soldier, joined a Para-military militia of war veterans who clashed with the communists in the streets of German cities. He was then given the task of closely monitoring a tiny right-wing political group called 'German Worker's Party'.

A few days later, in September 1st, 1939, the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, the German army and air force, attacked Poland in a way that shocked the world with its speed and efficiency. This was Blitzkrieg ("lightning war"), a new powerful tactic that coordinated and concentrated the power and mobility of tanks and aircraft to a devastating force. Today's modern tactics are a direct descendant of Blitzkrieg. Hitler’s entire career was a countdown to war. He wanted it since 1918, and now he started it.

In 1923 the German economy collapsed into wild hyperinflation. The peace treaty compensation was blamed for it, but the real reason was that Germany’s long time costly militarism that was previously paid for by the fruits of victories, had no victory now to pay its huge national debt, and the government ignored good economical advice that came from top foreign experts. The inflation was such that a visiting US congressman exchanged $7 for 4,000,000,000 DM, the German currency. Most Germans lost everything they had. They blamed the peace treaty compensations and 'Jewish traders'.

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