Hitler was a powerful speaker, he was strong and enthusiustic and very confident. He was ambitious and very persuasive and he promised people hope. He promised bread and work and that he could solve these problems if only given the chance. He could move Germany towards economic recovery. He told them that once he was in power he would ban Jews from the country, he promised; Great Agon, employment, lebensraum, versailees and anti-semitism which made people depend on him even more. He told them what they wanted to hear and that he would sort things out.
Hitler also got people to vote for him by using propaganda. He made posters telling the people that he needed their votes and they would be letting their country down by not voting for him. There were adverts on the radio, in the newspapers, in the cinema. His powerful speeches were another Nazi tactic. The Nazis believed in the Herrenvolk, the master race and all other races were infeitor were called the untermenschen.Jews, blacks and Gypsies. The Nazi party was too large to be ignored; it was the largest party in the Reichstag and with propaganda used everywhere people went they would be reminded of the Nazis party and to vote for them.
Hitler’s power increased between 1933 and 1934. He gradually built up his position and his power increased. In 1933 Hitler had been appionted chancellor, Franz von Papen, politician, who was once chancellor from June to November 1932, belived in Hitler. He persuaded Hindenburg to appoint Hitelr as chancellor with himself as vice-chancellor. Hindenburg hated Hitler but gave in to Franz von Papen, who promised Hindenburg that Hitler would be kept under control. On January 30th Hitler was appointed German chancellor.
There were only three Nazis in the government, and Hitler had no overall majority in the Reichstag. Hitler’s aim was to achieve an overall majority so that he could get the laws he wanted passed without any interference, which was to ban all political parties except the Nazis. Hitler called for another election to make sure that the Nazis won as many votes as possible. The Nazis prevented other parties from putting their points across properly so that Hitler had an advantage.
In 1930, the Nazis won 107 seats in the Reichstag and in July 1932 they won 230, also in March 1933 they won 233 seats. These successes lead the Nazis to have this two-thirds majority which lead to the Enabling Act. This made it possible for Hitler to pass laws without having to have the consent of the Reichstag, which was his aim as chancellor.He could pass laws for four years.
Now that Hitler could pass laws he did as planned and banned all political parties except the Nazis.
The only person who could Hitler was Hindenburg but he was old and he was expected to die shortly so that left Hitler unstopable. Hitler hoped to replace Hindenburg as president after his death but to do so he needed the support of the army. However, the army leaders despised the SA and thought of them as ill disciplined and unprofessional. Hitler needed the army’s support and if he had the army to support him, he no longer needed the SA. He then had the leaders of the SA killed in the Nightof the Long Knifes, including his good friend Ernst Rohn.
On June 30th, 1934, Night of the Long Knifes took place. Ernst Rohm and other SA strorm troopers were executed. Hitler became scared that his storm troopers would turn against him and kill him because he was getting all the glory and they were doing all the work. So he killed the main leader which were approximatley two hundred, including Ernst Rohm. He did so for many reasons; Hitler saw Rohm as a personal threat, also two of Hitler’s most important henchmen, Himmler and Goring, wanted Rohm removed so they had a word in his ear. When Hitler found out that he was a homosexual he was humiliated and wanted revenge so Hitler had him killed.
In 1934, Hitler then became president with the full support of the army and had satisfied his aims. He had all the powere that he had hoped for and now was fuhrer.
