HOW HITLER CAME TO POWER
A ‘dictator’ is a person who rules a country completely on there own.
The dictator who came to power in Germany in the 1930s was Adolf Hitler.
First, Hitler tried to get power by having a revolution:
- Germans were angry about the treaty of Versailles (1919), which had forced the German government to pay ‘reparations’ for the First World War. They were angry.
- In 1919 Adolf Hitler joined the Nazi party. In 1920 he became its Leader.
- In 1921 Hitler formed the SA, to attack rival parties.
- In 1923, there was an economic crisis, prices rose rapidly and many people were ruined. Angry, they turned to the Nazis.
- In 1923, Hitler tried to lead a revolution in Munich but it failed and 16 Nazis were killed. Hitler was put in Prison.