why did hitler come to power

  In 1924 a committee of experts headed by the American, General Dawes, produced a plan which arranged for more limited annual reparations and reorganise the German currency. Throughout the 1920’s the German nation were gaining economically as the Americans borrowed them money, Germany could now afford the reparations and could additionally re-equip her damaged railways and industrial plant and rebuild her cities. At the beginning of 1929 a new committee drew up a new plan for reparations called the Young Plan. In October 1929 The Wall Street Crash occurred. This was financially crippling to the German nation. US loans to Germany ceased. This caused the most devastating economical crisis of inter-war years. This caused unemployment in Germany to rise to 6million in 1932. German currency was dead, all businesses were going bust. These extreme economic problems made the German people turn to Hitler. The communists and the socialists did not join together which may have not allowed Hitler to come to power. The country needed a government as the previous governments had all failed in succeeding. It came down to the fact that the people in charge, von Papen and Hindenburg, did not want communism to spread to Germany so they employed Hitler in an attempt to stop communism and control the government by thinking that they could control Hitler. This was not the case.
These were all factors not directly involving Hitler which allowed him to come into power.
   Hitler himself was a powerful man and he used his own techniques to come into power. Hitler projected himself as a saviour to all of Germany’s problems. He said that he would be able to create a better Germany which would involve giving more jobs to the German people. This made the nation want to support him as they needed money and he was offering those who wanted him jobs.
  Something that Hitler was naturally good at was speeches. His speeches appealed and captured the nation. He used this technique that he had to his advantage. He made frequent speeches to different parts of the nation which helped to boost his appeal to all different types of people. The group of people that wanted Hitler in power the most were the Elites. This was because they were scared that communism was going to spread through out Germany making them lose massive amounts financially.
  Hitler used the hatred for the Jewish race to his advantage. The right wing parties blamed the Jewish people for the treaty of Versailles. Hitler also adopted this idea into his regime. It is suggested that Hitler became exasperated with the Jewish race as he supposedly caught Chlamydia from a Jewish prostitute. The German public also believed that the Jewish race was to blame for the treaty of Versailles and this ignited Hitler’s popularity even further. Hitler had an army of followers called the ‘brown shirts’, these vicious thugs used to go around and beat up opposing parties to scare them away from going against Hitler. There used to be street fights which would attract the attention of many, this just added to Hitler’s success with the people as the were intimidated by such a powerful man.
   At The event that took place known as the Beer Hall Putsch of November 1923, when the Ruhr crisis and the great inflation were at their height, Hitler won the respect of many right wing nationalist for having the courage to act and turned his trial into a propaganda success for both him and the Nazi cause, even with inglorious results. The technique Hitler used to the best of his advantage was the way he presented his propaganda. He appealed to all different types of Germans due to this technique. The beer hall putsch in Munich was a great example of how he used his propaganda techniques. This was great as he got a lot of media attention.
  In 1926 Hitler received just two point six percent of the vote; this meant that over ninety six percent of Germany rejected his ideas at this point. A devastating event was about to take place that helped Hitler into receiving massive increases in the votes he got. This was the Wall Street Crash in 1929, this affected the world, but worst of all Germany were put into financial turmoil. The whole nation was starving but Hitler looked at this time of crisis as a way to increase his popularity. In 1931 German unemployment rose to five point one million, five major banks crashed and over twenty thousand businesses closed. In 1928 before the crash Hitler received just two point three percent of the vote. In 1930 Hitler received a more modest twenty five point eight percent of the vote.
  Hitler travelled to twenty cities in seven days, this was a huge propaganda success as people who had never even seen Hitler voted for him. In 1932 the Nazi’s received thirty seven percent of the votes. Hitler was offered the vice chancellorship but he rejected it. In August 1932 Hitler wanted to become chancellor but is refused but Hindenburg, pressure groups then started to write to Hindenburg to persuade him to allow Hitler to become chancellor. Hindenburg gave the condition to Hitler that he would be allowed to become chancellor if Von Papen was vice chancellor and Hitler was only allowed two Nazi members in cabinet, this was meant to be an attempt to control Hitler. The famous quote used when Hitler became chancellor was “we have hired him”.  

I believe that Hitler used various methods to get into power, the method he used best was his propaganda. Hitler was a fortunate man as there were a lot of ‘other’ incidents which allowed him to take control of Germany. The main problem Germany faced was the economic struggle that was placed upon them after the was and Hitler promised that he would rid Germany of the enemy inside and get rid of poverty as Germany was the greatest nation.