Wall St. Crash

Although there are other factors that determined Hitler’s rise to power. Such as the storm troopers. This was Hitler’s private army which were also named the SA. The Storm troopers put pressure on the opposition and threatened many voters. They attacked Jews and other people who apposed Hitler. This led to many of his opponents keeping quiet simply because they were scared of being murdered. This is a major factor because the threats that the SA were making, stopped opposition from voting against him therefore leading him to come in power.

Hitler’s personal qualities are another factor that put Hitler into power, he was a brilliant speaker and some people say that his eyes had a peculiar power over people. He was a good organiser and politician, which led the Nazi’s tactics into 3 main things that not all the other parties had; Money, Propaganda & Programme. Hitler was funded by many rich men that grew fear of communism taking away there wealth, this caused Hitler’s propaganda & election campaigns to be simply amazing, picking up much support. His programme was to promise everyone something, that way everybody supported him. E.g. when he renamed the German Workers Party to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. He was trying to win over both sides, the left & right wing of the country.

A big factor in Hitler’s rise to power was the Political deal. In November 1932 elections the Nazis again failed to get a majority of seats in the Reichstag.   Their share of the vote fell – from 230 seats to only 196. The political deal is where Von Papen (a friend of Hindenburg) was Chancellor but he could not get enough support in the Reichstag to pass laws. Hindenburg and von Papen had to govern by emergency decree under Article 48 of the Constitution. So they asked Hitler to become vice-chancellor to gain over more supporters in the Reichstag but he demanded to become Chancellor. So Von Papen and Hindenburg took a risk.   On 30 January 1933 Hindenburg made Hitler Chancellor. They made a deal to try and control Hitler by having only 3 Nazi’s in the cabinet. Hitler was now already in quite a bit of power through this deal, it was almost given to him. From here he could start knocking off obstacles in his way to become Master of Europe and turn Germany into a dictatorship country. Which he succeeded in doing.

After examining other factors of Hitler’s rise to power I disagree with the statement that the Wall Street Crash was the main reason to Hitler’s rise to power because I believe that Hitler was given most of his power through the Political deal. Without the Political deal he would not have gotten through the Reichstag and forced the country into turning to a dictatorship.