The Causes Of The Holocaust
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Post World War I Germany saw difficult times. Germans were
searching for a reason to blame someone for their problems and extremist
groups such as the Nazis provided a focus for the German people. Some
historians will argue that extreme nationalism was the cause of the
Holocaust because of the pow ....
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.... would have to pay other countries for their economic
losses (Allen 57). Germany also lost all of its colonies overseas. It had
to give back provinces to France, Belgium, and Denmark. France got German
coal mines and Gda sk, now a city in Poland, became a "free city." Poland
gained most of Western Prussia and Germany's Rhineland was demilitarized,
although allied troops occupied it for fifteen years after the war (Shirer
59). The Treaty also solely held Germany responsible for the War in a
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