Case Study #3: The Democrat and The Dictator Quite obviously, in Hitler’s Proclamation to the German Nation of 1933, he addresses one of the issue he believes to be the root cause of Germany’s problems. He states, “More than fourteen years have passed since the unhappy day when the German people, blinded by promises from foes at home and abroad, lost touch with honor and freedom, thereby losing all” (p 1). He goes on to say, “We never received the equality and fraternity we had been promised, and we lost our liberty to boot. For when our nation lost its political place in the world, it soon lost its unity of spirit and will” (p 1). Fourteen years ago would have been 1918, the end of World War I, followed then by the Treaty of Versailles. He also states that “the Marxist (communist) parties and their lackeys have had fourteen years to show what they can do. The result is a heap of ruins” (p 2). Clearly, he is also blaming communism for the continued ruin of Germany. FDR, on the other hand, blames “the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods”, “the unscrupulous money changers” in his First Inaugural Address of 1933. He states, the banks “failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence” (p 2). Roosevelt blames the banks for the nation’s problems. According to Hitler, there were to be two four-year plans to deal with unemployment, finance and economy, agriculture and foreign policy. First and foremost, “One decisive step is absolutely necessary first: the overcoming of the destroying menace of communism in Germany” (p. 3). Meaning, no more communism… he is paving the way for Nazi Germany. Secondly, “the German farmer must be rescued in order that the nation may be supplied with the necessities of life… the German peasant must be rescued from quagmire into which he has fallen. Compulsory labor-service and back-to-the-land policy are two of the