rsailles. He said, “I have worked only to restore that which others once broke by force.” (53) When he took over the Rhine River, and continued to add to his army and surplus over 100,000 soldiers he broke the treaty. The ironic thing was after reading his speech I felt like he had done nothing wrong. A lot of things he said were very true. The treaty did destroy political order in Europe economically, and divided nationalities. The Germans could not acknowledge the Austria community that they had confessed for more then a thousand years. (53) Since the Treaty of Versailles the German economy was down. This led to migrations to other countries. In his speech, Hitler just wanted to liberate nearly four million Germans, and return to their thousand-year-old Reich. For Hitler to united McIntire 5his Germans he had to remove different national and ethnic groups in Germany. Which clearly broke the treaty. I never thought by reading Keylor’s The Legacy of the Great War, I would learn the fine details of the Paris Peace plan. The book goes in great detail that enables me to understand everyone’s opinion. However I did not agree with everybody actions and thoughts on the treaty. I understood what they were looking for in the outcome. I now have a different feeling for Adolf Hitler. He was very powerful through his speeches and controlling a people’s mind. I believe he had great ideas but did not know how to execute them in the proper manner. ...
