Hitler's Rise to Power Essay

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Appeasement

Abraham Ascher was a noted author of history and distinguished Professor Emeritus at City University of New York until his death in 2012. His scholarly article in The Journal of the Historical Society discusses in great depth the failure of European leaders to recognize the harmful intentions of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich -- until it was too late.

Ascher points out with well-crafted narrative and well-verified sources that Hitler should not have been a riddle at all -- albeit the Nazi leader had a "penchant for contradictory pronouncements" and few European leaders had read Mein Kampf -- because all the signs showed Hitler's villainous obsession with power and his ability to stir up extreme nationalistic emotions (Ascher, 2009).

The purpose that Ascher had in writing the article was to carefully, thoroughly review the way in which European leaders (in particular, British leaders) came to slowly understand Hitler's "…commitment to militarism" and in the process appeased the fanatical dictator who hated Jews.

The article's main contention / argument is that Hitler was crafty and clever in his ability to use propaganda to coax the German people into giving him dictatorial powers; and that all along Hitler had hideously violent plans driven by his anti-Semitism.

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Ascher uses several pages of his essay to reference reports / dispatches authored by Sir. John Horace Rumbold, the British ambassador to Berlin (1928-1933), which boldly and clearly spelled out Hitler's fanaticism and apparent plans to dominate Europe. If Hitler has his way, "The German race…would now be master of the globe…" Rumbold wrote (Ascher, p. 8).

The main point Ascher is trying to get across is that notwithstanding the repeated official warnings about Hitler's huge military build-up and ambassadorial reports referencing Hitler's raging, unstable personality -- from Rumbold and from Sir Eric Phipps (ambassador who took over in 1933) -- England apparently was reducing its forces and wasn't overly concerned. Here is a typical report mentioned by Ascher: "Phipps warned his superiors at the Foreign Office that it would be folly for Western countries to make concessions to the Germans" (Ascher, p. 13).

Here are quotes that present the principal supporting arguments from Ascher vis-a-vis Britain's appeasement policies: a) officials in London (in 1938) "…shied away from confronting….....

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