HIS317H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Darwinism, Lebensraum, Modernism
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Nazi party initially began as fringe party, but in just a few years became formidable, absorbed other groups, and became largest party in reichstag: rise linked to popular discontent with the status quo, played upon fears and anxieties, campaigned with zeal of religious movement, impactful in a time many germans considered catastrophic. End game was to negotiate gradual changes in versailles treaty: willing to live with western borders as is but he never while carrying out its provisions accepted eastern borders (esp. wanted land in poland, a revisionist in this way, not unlike hitler, but never had vision for eastern expansion only wanted to bring. ) series of agreements where gb, italy mutually agreed peace. : seen as new dawn = peace on continent now, agreed to western borders as inviolable same guarantees not made for eastern borders, german also signed arbitration treaties with poland and czechoslovakia to make it seem less threatening.
