Contextualization 1 point Thesis 1 pt (arguable, addresses all parts of the claim) Thesis 1 pt (complex thesis illustrating relationships between evidence such as contradiction, corroboration, and/or qualification) Targeted skill 1 pt (uses at least six documents to support the thesis) Targeted skill 1 pt (includes HAPPy points for at least four documents) Evidence beyond the document 1 pt Synthesis 1 pt Doc. 1: "The 'Temps' this evening devotes a leading article to a criticism of the statement made by General Smuts as to his attitude of mind in signing the Treaty. General Smuts considers that the Germans have already changed radically and irrevocably and 'vaunts [praises] their new pacific temperament,' and he wishes to grant them mitigations: revision of certain territorial clauses, abandonment of certain guarantees, suppression of certain punishments, reduction of certain indemnities. The 'Temps' thinks that the General commits 'an error in psychology and an error in method' and that he is mistaken not only in the mentality of the Germans but in their needs" (Extracts from a Foreign Office Report describing reactions to the Treaty in the French newspaper, the Temps. June-August, 1919. ) Doc 2: The easiest and hence the most widespread explanation of the present misfortune is that it was brought about by the consequences of the lost War and that therefore the War is the cause of the present evil. There may be many who will seriously believe this nonsense, but there are still more from whose mouths such an explanation can only be a lie and conscious falsehood. This last applies to all those who today feed at the government's cribs. [After all, didn't these liars] say that by a German defeat 'militarism' would be destroyed, but that the German nation would celebrate its most glorious resurrection? Didn't these circles glorify the benevolence of the Entente, and didn't they shove full blame for the whole bloody struggle on Germany? And could they have done this without declaring that even military defeat would be without special consequences for the nation? Wasn't the whole revolution embroidered with the phrase that it would prevent the victory of the German flag but that through it the German people would at last begin advancing toward freedom at home and abroad? Will you claim that this was not so, you wretched, lying scoundrels? It takes a truly Jewish effrontery [shamelessness] to attribute the blame for the collapse solely to the military defeat when the central organ of all traitors to the nation, the Berlin Vorwaerts, wrote that this time the German people must not bring its banner home victorious! And now this is supposed to be the cause of our collapse?' (Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf. Volume 1, Chapter 10. 1925. ) Doc 3: "I will do my utmost to prevent any inflationary measure of any kind, not only in the spirit of justice, not only to protect the weak, but also because it is my opinion that the honest balance of the German economy has to...
