Through the Nazi Party, an organization he forged after returning from the annihilating trench warfare of World War I as a wounded veteran, Hitler rose to power. He and other patriotic Germans were outraged and humiliated by the harsh terms of the Versailles Treaty, which forced the Allies to accept the new German government, the Weimar Republic, along with an obligation to pay $33 billion in Germany has had to give up its cherished overseas colonies and surrender valued parcels of home territories to France and Poland
