After World War I, Germany's mood was gloomy. They were a desperate people whose economy was in ruins after paying reparations, and the reputation of their government had taken a hit. They were angry and bitter about what they had left in the Treaty of Versailles. They needed something, or someone, to repair everything that had been destroyed and replace what had been taken from them. The answers to all their wishes and desires appeared in the form of Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a charismatic orator, and in a nation searching for any source of hope, his energy and ideas seemed a gift from God. He promised the disillusioned German people a new beginning. His promise to fix the economy and create new jobs appealed to the unemployed, young people and members of the lower middle class. In 1932 the Nazis won the election with thirty-three percent of the vote, and in January 1933 they named Hitler chancellor, head of the German government and, as such, their new savior. Hitler was able to run all the elections. responsibility for German loss in World War I...