The punishment of germany by the allies in the treaty of versailles was one of the major factors that led to the rise of hitler and world war ii. choose 3 of the following statements to support this thesis. 1. people would still have hated the weimar govt because they were used to strong leaders (bismarck and wilhelm) and the republic was not. 2. germany would not have wanted revenge if they were given a just peace so there would be no need to fight again 3.nationalism would have continued to rise in germany and may have taken a different form but world war ii was still inevitable 4.hitler's promises would not have as much power because they would not have been as powerful 5.germany not being punished in the war would have made the nazi party more of a fringe party 6.fascism would have still appealed to the german people, therefore, they would have joined italy and spain regardless 7.the weimar republic would not have been as weak and would have been able to survive the great depression 8.germany still would have gone into a great depression because the rest of the world did, so it would have changed nothing