ay large war reparations. The German army was reduced to a mere 100,000 men and was forbidden the possession of submarines or military aircraft. The disgraceful effect this treaty had on the German nation sparked passion and desire in many Germans, including Hitler, “to make Germany the absolute, irresistible leading power in Europe.” (Haffner: 64) In all actuality, the German public never truly accepted the Treaty of Versailles as a reality, because it was formed and signed under forced coercion, and therefore, erroneous in their minds. “It was not, as other European peace treaties in the past had been negotiated and agreed between victors and vanquished.” (Haffner: 63) “The Treaty really was just what the insulted Germans called it- a Diktat, a dictated peace.” (Haffner: 63) Versailles became the ultimate symbol of German degradation. This unstable emotional state promoted the enactment of Hitler’s program for the rearmament and re-militization of Germany and by “1938 it was the strongest military and air power in Europe.” (Haffner: 30) Thus the intention to ‘shake off the fetters of Versailles’ was accomplished. The “Final Solution” for the creation of Hitler’s Greater-German nationalism was the extermination of the entire Jewish “race”. For Hitler, the “Jew” was the cause of all chaos, corruption and destruction in culture, politics and the economy. Their underlying motive was to exploit and disable the German nation and the purity and perfection of the Aryan race. “The Jew’ is everybody’s enemy: ‘His ultimate aim is the de-nationalization, the inter-bastardization of the other nations, the lowering of the racial level of the noblest, as well as domination over that racial jumble through the extermination of national intelligentsia’s and their replacement by members of his own nation...
