Who and what helped Hitler into power by 1933?

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Who and what helped Hitler into power by 1933?

Hitler and his Nazi party gained power in 1933 by exploiting many of the weaknesses in Germany, utilising their methods and organisation effectively.

        Conditions in Germany in 1919-24 played a large part in the emergence of the Nazi’s.  After WW1, the Versailles Treaty was made, which was a huge blow for Germany as they were crippled with reparations and the ‘stab in the back theory’.  German soldiers felt the ‘November Criminals’ who signed the Treaty had betrayed them.  Hitler exploited such problems by acting as a saviour.  He said he would return Germany to a powerful nation.  There was also unrest in Munich at the time, and with such incidents as the Munich Putsch involving the Nazi Party and Hitler, people found out about the Nazi’s.  With Freikorps and Marxists fighting each other, extreme conditions became a breeding ground for extremist and violent politics, hence the emergence of the Nazi party.

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        Hitler also realised that democracy was failing and locked into this by creating a preference of order over freedom policy, he made it clear that Germany needed a leader, a dictator.  One of Hitler’s other objectives was to overturn the Versailles Treaty.  He made this no secret, and the German people were attracted to this aim.  With this Hitler managed to say that Marxists and Jews were a threat, that they were the criminals who signed the Treaty.  People were convinced and manipulated to believe this, and so gave one of Hitler’s aims more support, which was getting rid of ...

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