Hitler's rise to power

and appealing to the people so that Hitler could obtain his votes.        The Nazi party aimed at gaining much support at the expense of its rivals. “At a deeper level however the Nazi Party remained a mass movement.” Hitler wanted to imitate Mussolini in different circumstances and concentrated in overtaking the major cities. “The party therefore had a Jekyll and Hyde appearance which Hitler made no attempt to conceal” Hitler’s rise would never have occurred if hadn’t been a likeable character and shown good leadership skills.Q2) Using some of the causes in the list explain how both long term and short term causes contributed to Hitler’s rise to power.The original cause of the Hitler ordeal was the Treaty of Versailles. It is the longest of the long-term causes and threw Germany into a ditch that she found very difficult and trying to scramble out of. The most crippling of the terms of the treaty had to have been the war reparations that Germany was forced to pay. This sum of £6,6oo million, to be paid in cash and various materials would go to pay for damage that the Germans caused mostly in France and Belgium. This sum was very large and dented the German industry greatly because if they could not meet a certain sum of money by their deadline then the difference would be taken from various industry products. This soon caused inflation that sprouted to hyperinflation and so the Economic depression of the 1920´s in Germany occurred. I would say that the War Guilt clause was the most damaging term of the Treaty for Germany’s pride. By agreeing to the treaty Germany was made to accept all blame for starting the war. Although many people in the world believed this was true I think that it was just to cover up the guilt being felt by the representatives of each country involved in the war, for not detecting the instability Germany was feeling and not doing enough to prevent a war that need not have happened. So very imaginably Germany was very resentful of being blamed for all the deaths the terrible disruption, and the damage that had happened in the First World War.         This ongoing long-term cause was the core itself of many more causes in the rise of Hitler. I do not believe that it was a direct link to Hitler, his campaign and reign but the cause of many other events which without, Hitler would never had had the power he needed to be in control.        Another long-term cause of Hitler’s rise to power was the Munich Putsch. The economic crisis and the French invasion of the Ruhr was causing such discontent between the German people that Hitler decided to attempt a putsch on the conference at Munich in Bavaria, a southern region of Germany. This was organized by the National Social German Worker’s Party (NSDAP) whose leader at the time was Adolf Hitler. At this point the Nazi’s were only a small party opposed to the Weimar Republic. The putsch took place on the 8th November 1923. There was a meeting in a large beer cellar, von Kahr- Governor of Bavaria- was in the middle of a speech and all attention was poised on him. In stormed Hitler and his fellow party members. The Nazis were supposed to be supported by the Bavarian government when they proposed to seize power and march to Berlin to overtake control of the country.         However their plan failed and the army were surprisingly on command when the party were walking through Munich, Fire broke out and 16 Nazis were killed. The leaders of this deed were then arrested.         I believe that the failure of this putsch only made Hitler stronger. As a person his time in jail allowed him to concentrate on how he would be able to successfully rise to power, but also how quickly he would be able to achieve this. It gave him time to realise the Nazi party’s strong points of reasoning and that they would not just need support from their people but that these people would need to feel that they could die for the cause, Nazi martyrs would need to be born from promotions, propaganda – any tool that the Nazis had available to them.        Most importantly from the time in jail due to the failure of the Munich putsch, the Nazi’s used their trials, especially Hitler, to promote their cause. In the witness box he condemned the 12 men that signed the Treaty of Versailles who were called the ‘ November criminals´ and he condemned the Treaty itself. A leaflet was published which was a tribute to the honour and bravery of the Nazi members who died during the putsch. The trial and well-stocked propaganda of this quite short period produced much interest and even more support for the Nazi party and therefore helped Hitler in his rise to power.        A short-term cause of the success of the Nazi party is the Enabling Law. When Hitler was appointed chancellor he felt that he did not have as much power as he could have. He proposed the Enabling act that would reduce the Reichstag’s powers. This change required a two-thirds majority vote in the meeting of the newly elected Reichstag. He achieved this by expelling all communist MP´s of the Reichstag. Then made an agreement with the centre party that in return for the Enabling act power the church would have a special guarantee of safety. The Law was passed and Hitler had an ultimate power of the people of Germany. What better and quicker way to rise to the top of the democracy.        Once Hitler had the power within the parliament he had to put it into practice by running peoples lives. This was achieved by his ever-popular propaganda stunts, he also wanted to strongly put across his message that he would be the new leader by using very inhumane police forces that specialized in terrorizing citizens and making them obey Hitler. Germany had turned into a totalitarian state. Although it does not seem to be a good way of living the economic crisis had driven people to give up their morals very easily. He had worn them down but in another way had pulled them up so that he could achieve the power that he wanted.Q3) Was any one of these reasons more important than the other reasons in Hitler’s rise to power? Explain your answer.        I think that the Economic depression was the more influential reason why Hitler rose to power, but it was not the only reason why. All of the other reasons being; The Treaty of Versailles, The Munich Putsch, Hitler’s oratory, personality and leadership, the decision by Von Papen and Hardinsburg to appoint him as Chancellor in 1933, and the Enabling Law – were all especially important in conjunction with the downfall of Germany’s Economy, and all very significant to the ascend of Hitler and the Nazi party.I believe that the Economic depression sparked much unwanted controversy within the German Republic. It was a time of deep despair; Germany was in the grip of this great depression with a population suddenly finding themselves in a state of poverty, misery and uncertainty, whilst in the middle of a rapidly growing political instability.For Hitler, his long awaited opportunity to reach out to the German people had arrived. At this point in the German nation the citizens, downtrodden and tired of their economic situation, were more than willing too listen to someone with ideas or visions of a brighter and certainly more stable Germany.The main reason why the economic depression was the most influential above all of the others was because it was the ongoing cause of many peoples unhappiness. It was the foundation upon which the Nazi’s built their political messages. The reason why Hitler became so popular over the Economic depression was because of a series of financial events which unfolded in the years 1921 to 1923 which propelled the Nazi party and himself to new heights of daring, which was highly linked with the speeches Hitler gave and the promotional stunts that the Nazi party held.The party’s tactics were very good and effective in their rise to power. However the success was really thanks to Hitler and the character that in the beginning I believe he was portraying but later became.I believe that if there had not been an economic disaster at that time, had the country not stumbled into a state of hyperinflation, Hitler would never have successfully raised the amount of strong morale that he did, mainly due to pure human conscience. Not many people believe in the majority of the Nazi party’s actions and politics but there was usually one or two points mostly of un-employment or the stabilising of money; that no one else had offered the German sufferers until then.Their time was that moment; to be the biggest and the best organized and supported party that Germany had had since the war. The people did not know that Hitler’s rise to power could cause another.