omfort in blaming the Jews for this trouble. Economic problems usually lead to political problems, and Germany was no exception (Duffy 81-86). With the economic problems, and the recent downfall of Germany, the people wanted an answer. And they saw this intelligent sounding man as the answer. The people were in a bad situation, and they saw Hitler as the way out. So with few options, the people followed Hitlers rule hoping he would bring them back to greatness. With this rise in popularity, Hitler saw his opportunity. Hitler held a rally to proclaim a revolution. The day after the rally he led 2,000-armed Nazis in an attempt to take over the Bavarian government. The rally was resisted and put down by the police, after more than a dozen were killed in the fighting, Hitler suffered a broken and dislocated arm in the melee and was arrested and was imprisoned. He received a five-year sentence. Hitler served only nine months of his five-year sentence. And while in prison, he wrote the first volume of Mein Kampf. It was partly an autobiographical book but also detailed his views on the future of the German people. There were several targets of the vicious diatribes in the book, such as democrats, Communists, and internationalists. But he reserved the brunt of his attacks for the Jews, whom he portrayed as responsible for all of the problems and evils of the world, particularly democracy, Communism, and internationalism, as well as Germany's defeat in the War (Simpson 37-42). In the book Hitler wrote that the Jews were the German nation's true enemy, and that they had no culture of their own. He said the Jews were an anti-race and they were ultimately the lowest race. On the contrary, the German people were of the highest racial purity and they were destined to be the master race, according to Hitler. To maintain that purity, Hitler believed it was necessary to avoid intermarriage with subhuman races such as Jews and Slavs. Germany co...
