Hitler’s oratory, personality and leadership was also very important as without Hitler's ability to speak and convince and lead an audience, he couldn’t have come to power,because he knew how to appear to people, he gave them what they wanted to hear. He was very carismatic he convinced the German people that the November criminals were anti-patriots and that they didn’t care about the Germans.
The decision by Papen and Hindenburg to appoint him as chancellor is the most important short-term cause.This is different from all the other causes because, it was because of his strong personality that Hindenburg doubted for a period. It would not work as well, if he didn’t achieve support in fore hand.There is no way to dictatorship, if he was not appointed to chancellor at first. Everything he said and did now, was right, because he was making the rules. The enabling act destroyed parliamentary democracy and all other political parties which Hitler found useless. Mein Kampf was now practiced in real. Jews and opponents were swept away, followed by the independent trade unions, and all other parties. There was no chance for anybody to fight against Hitler any longer. This act was the last step for Hitler’s rise to power.
There are two long term causes, the two of them are very shortly linked,the biggest and most important long term cause was the treaty of Versailles. If the Treaty of Versailles did not exist, Hitler’s weapon against the Allies and the ‘November Criminals’ wouldn’t have worked as the goverment were seen as criminals because they signed the treaty. It was already hated in peoples mind, and Hitler strengthened the hate. The Treaty of Versailles goes with the economic depression. There were both to be blamed for. Both were great opportunity for Hitler to get people’s support. Because those who suffered from Versailles Treaty and Depression were all Germans.
The economic depression is also a long-term cause. It contributed Hitler’s rise to power, it helped increasing Nazi seats in the Reichstag and gave Hitler a great cause to go against the German goverment. It is similar to the Treaty of Versailles because both were depressive and unavoidable. People were suffering from unemployment, hunger and homelessness. Their misery and hunger helped Nazis’ support increase rapidly. The poor people got promised bread, work and hope. The poor people also felt betrayed by the Republic, so Hitler promised revenge. He got a good reason to beat up the Weimar goverment with a whole population backing him. This reason is different from other causes, because it was not caused by Germany it self, but Germany had impact on the depression because of the debts.
All these causes toghether were a bomb that finally exploded when Hitler came to power as the long term causes as firstly explained were little by little giving Hitler reasons to acuse the weimar republic as traitors and silently convincing people that the old regime(dicatorship)worked better than the republic.The short term causes made up Hitler’s image towards the German people and quckly afected Hitler’s politic speech.