I agree with the view that the rise of Hitler was inevitable, firstly because the German people were used to being told what to do under a strong dictator, and that when the Weimar Republic took over, the people of Germany had to suddenly adapt to living under a democracy, the Weimar Republic were not in power long when they signed the Treaty of Versailles, which the German people were furious about, because the propaganda was telling them they were wining the war and suddenly they surrendered, there anger was directed at the government and they were branded the ‘November Criminals’. This was one of the main reasons Hitler’s rise was inevitable in my view, because the German people had no faith in a democratic government, they needed a dictator, and when the Weimar Republic printed too much money and caused hyperinflation, it just reassured the German peoples distrust in democracy.
A Historian may argue that the German people did start to adapt to a democracy, and that there was a stage when the German people were experiencing a boom in the economy and low unemployment, which meant that the German people did not resent democracy because they were happy living under it and prospered for a short time, it was just the Weimar Republic itself making bad decisions. Meaning that Hitler’s rise to power was not inevitable because the German people weren’t always looking for a dictator, and were open to alternative governments such as democracy.
Hitler came to power in 1933, because he had such extreme views, The German people were politically polarizing because there country was in dismay after the Treaty being signed, The Wall Street crash and hyperinflation, Hitler came up with a simple answer for the German people, he blamed their misfortune on Jews and other races of people that in his view were inferior, and he said he would re-militarise Germany and abolish the Treaty by force. And this was exactly the answer the German people were looking for, because they needed big change and they were used to living under a dictator, and had lost their faith in democracy. It was because of this that Hitler’s rise was inevitable in my opinion, because of the dire situation the German people were in.
An argument to this would be that, It was only because of a congregation of international incidents, together that made the German people politically polarize. I think that before the incidents such as signing of the treaty of Versailles and hyperinflation it was not inevitable that Hitler would come to power, because if those incidents didn’t happen the German people wouldn’t have polarized so much and would have stayed with a democracy or maybe a more politically central dictator. But after those events the rise of Hitler’s rise was inevitable, because the German people had polarized to such an extent that they thought Hitler could dig them out of the hole they were in.
