In 1933, in Germany, Adolf Hitler rose to power with his National Socialist Party. There were many factors involved in the Nazi party's rise to power. Some of these factors were due to failure within the nation in preventing such a thing from happening, but some were also due to external European nations. The Nazis are often thought of as the most brutal rules in world history.

In 1997, Kagan wrote The Western Heritage; in it he talks about the German Weimar Republic, which was set up after World War I. It was called Weimar due to the city that it was written and put into order in. This new government was the main fault in the rise of the Nazis and Hitler. There was a report sent out to the English prime minister from an unknown writer, in 1920, about the Weimar Republic. The anonymous writer discusses the main structural...