How did the Treaty of Versailles help Hitler to rise to power?

The Treaty of Versailles helped Hitler rise to power in Germany because it humiliated Germany and made Germans resent it and the people who forced it on them. 

The Treaty of Versailles treated Germany very harshly.  It took away much of their territory including all overseas colonies.  It forbade them to have a full-scale military.  It required them to pay reparations to the countries that had defeated them.  It forced them to state that the...

The Treaty of Versailles helped Hitler rise to power in Germany because it humiliated Germany and made Germans resent it and the people who forced it on them. 

The Treaty of Versailles treated Germany very harshly.  It took away much of their territory including all overseas colonies.  It forbade them to have a full-scale military.  It required them to pay reparations to the countries that had defeated them.  It forced them to state that the war had been their fault.  All of this made Germans very angry.  Germans felt that they had been treated unfairly because they did not think the war was all their fault.  They felt that the victors were simply being vengeful.  They hated the idea that they were forced to give up their power and to become a weak and helpless country.

In the wake of WWI and the Treaty of Versailles, political upheaval broke out.  This included violent clashes between rival factions.  It seemed as if the democratic government could not keep order or unity in the country.  This was exacerbated by the coming of the Great Depression in 1929.  Because conditions got to be so bad, Germans were completely disenchanted with the Weimar Republic.  They wanted change and they were willing to listen to people who could promise to make Germany great again, regardless of how radical those people were.  It was in this context that the Nazis were able to become popular.  They told people what they wanted to hear.  They seemed to offer the people a way out of their troubles and a way that they could regain what they felt they deserved.

Thus, the Treaty of Versailles helped cause anger and resentment in Germany.  That anger and resentment helped allow Hitler to come to power because he and the Nazis promised to fix all of their country’s problems and make Germany great again.