"Assess the impact of Nazism on the Army in the years 1918 - 1945."

Throughout the period 1918 to 1945, the Army was impacted both positively and negatively through the implementation of Nazism. Between the end of the First World War and the implications placed upon Germany under the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the Army undertook significant restructure. Throughout both the National Socialist German Labour Party, known as the Nazi Party, and leader Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Hitler deliberately targeted the support of the Army in order to gain power the only way he thought was fit, by legal means. The re-Establishment of a German Army that was…