To what extent was it Hitler’s personality that enabled the Nazis to rise to power?
Adolf Hitler acquired supreme authority of Germany by making the Nazi party as his powerbase to rise to power. The Nazis came to power due to a collection of factors and coincident that Hitler was able to take advantage of, however it can be argued that it was Hitler’s personality that felicitated the Nazis rise to power.
Hitler was believed to have had a unique personality and character which ultimately can be thought to have given him the power to enforce Nazi Germany into control. His character is said to have been a shy, isolated individual, who was also contemptuous of mankind and admired strength or success. This allows us to determine his personality and we can see how early views or even experiences would have created skills and abilities which would have been crucial in the endeavour he was later able to complete. Some of these abilities created were his commitment and tremendous amount of energy to any scheme he thought was worth undertaking. He also had remarkable willpower and was a single-minded fanatic. As a child he also thought he was destined to play a great role, which must have produced his extraordinary willpower, which he was to take advantage of in later years. Hitler’s skills and abilities are linked to his act of success with taking the Nazis to power, but they can also be interpreted to have given him skills of propaganda. Hitler was a great orator, had a hypnotic effect on an audience and a supreme master of psychology of mass politics. These skills were exactly what a man in Hitler’s position required; the ability to put into words what the crowd was longing to hear. This would be vital to raise the Nazis to power, which Hitler significantly realised.
