Why did Western powers allow Hitler to build a huge military?

Question

Why would big bankers , many jewish, give him so much money and then allow him to go attack the soviet union and do what he wanted to? Was he just used?

Answer 1

I don' t believe that it was so much that the western powers allowed Hitler to do anything, he was more or less ignored. The world had not recovered from WWI yet and most of the Western countries were in varying stages of isolationism, turning a blind eye on everything that did not directly affect them.

As for Hitler, he was in charge, sort of the G. Bush of his day. He did what he desired, he was revered and he was not to be blinded by the facts. He could have easily built himself a very large, very powerful empire if he had not chosen war as his route. If you've ever read or heard his speeches, he had a real handle on motivation and used it like a club.

Yeah, he was just used. Used by the devil, his own mind.

Answer 2

Short Answer - Western powers at the time were afraid that if they tried to stop hitler a new Great War would break out. Allowing him to build up his arsenal was a gesture of appeasement from both the british and french governments. In the end as we all know hitler had no intention of staying quiet and all that happened was that ww2 just broke out at a later stage. As for America , America had no intention of entering the war as they seen it as a European problem - the majority of American people still remembered the Great war and were not in a mood to send another generation of young men off to die in a war which they seen as having nothing to do with them. It was not until the attack on pearl harbour that enough support for entering the war was generated. Keep in mind that up until that time America were helping out England with supplies under the cloak of neutrality, because of this Hitler could not order any attack on American ships crossing the Atlantic.
Interestingly the only one in the English Government at the time who seemed to realise what Hitler was building up to was Churchill, who was very vocal on the subject but was put down by the rest of the Government as being a dangerous warmongerer.

This is just a very basic account of that period in history and i suggest you Google Neville Chamberlain's Government for a bigger picture.

Answer 3

The theory was called appeasement: give him what he wants and he´ll go away. The policy, expoused by Neville Chamberlain ( PM of England at the time) and Daladier ( the French) thought that by letting Hitler have a big army, Germany could serve as a buffer against Communist Russia, and contain Soviet expansion on the European continent, since Hitler was a rabid anti-communist. Little did they know.....

Answer 4

Hold on! You are going a bit fast there in your statements.

WWI was won by the Allies at a tremendous cost. Western powers thought it smart to impose an extraordinary financial effort from Germany to repay destructions caused by the war (Treaty of Versailles) and Germany went in effect bankrupt during the following years without anybody even lifting so much as a finger to prevent what was brewing there: a desire for revenge and a loathing of Western powers. Hitler came to power during the World Depression, and I doubt there was much money to spare then to help him finance his plans for a second war.

Now, what followed is simply that the guy got financial help from German industries and sympathizers from various places, including the US. This added to that specifically German aptitude to recover by hard work and pride.

For your information, Hitler launched war toward Poland first, NOT Soviet Union, and then reverted back to attacking Western European countries between 1939 and 1940. It took him 2 more years to get to invade Soviet Union in 1942.

Answer 5

Neville Chamberlain who was PM in UK at the time was a very weak man. He sought appeasement with Hitler, peace at any cost. Britain was just about getting over WW1 and so another war wasn't wanted and must be avoided at all cost.
The US President Roosevelt was far away enough not to be bothered by Hitler and so didn't get involved.
Hitler marched into the Sudaten Land to control the oil fields, after that he marched on Czechoslovakia.
It was only after he invaded Poland, a close ally of Britain that war was declared in order to stop Hitler.
By then of course it was far too late.

Answer 6

because all of them had to experience free-bypass-fortunate, and stay accessible idealistic perspectives of how the international operates. Hitler flat out instructed them at one aspect precisely what number new warplanes and factories he had going, and did each little thing yet finally say, "i am going to start up international conflict II", yet nonetheless, the French and the British had to soothe Hitler, questioning that a joyful psychotic is extra apt to be non violent, and only massive mouthed than an indignant one. of route, they were incorrect and both international places paid dearly for his or her blind pursuits. The similarities to our authorities on the prompt and Iran are fairly frankly scary, all the way right down to the great interest.

Answer 7

You know...while Hitler ran for office, he made himself appear rather leftist. And, sadly, many Jewish people happen to be leftists politically (about 90% are Democrats today). Of course they'd welcome Hitler with open arms. But when he gained control, he took the mask off and showed the world who he really was. So after that, they never forgave him for tricking them. I think this is the real hatred they have for him, one besides the Holocaust. If they had genuine hatred for him based on just the Holocaust, they should be equally if not more down on Stalin for his own share of murder.

Answer 8

At the time many of the World governments' politicians were either appeasers or pacifists. In that climate it would only be natural that leaders like Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito would get encouragement for their countries expansionist aspirations.

Answer 9

Western powers wanted a strong central European state to prevent the spread of Communism from the East

Answer 10

Because we were afraid of a repeat of WWI, were still weakend from that war because we played by the rules of the Treaty of Versailles, and we didn't have the guts to challenge him. As Churchill said, "the age of half-measures and dithering".