Why Did Hitler come to Power in 1933?

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ABU BAKR AHMED        9C        Thursday, 17 May 2012

Why did Hitler come in power in 1933?

Following the collapse of the Weimar democracy, Hitler managed to gain dictatorship over Germany by 1936. In fact it took Hitler just around 18 months, between February 1933 and August 1934, so, how was Hitler able to achieve a dictatorship over Germany so quickly?

I am going to start with how the Germans had fear of Germany becoming a communist country like Russia. At the end of the war, many people hoped that democracy would spread to most countries of the world. They did not want to be controlled by a dictatorship, which would lead them into a communist country.

Following the Treaty of Versailles, Germany faced extreme poverty, high unemployment and was falling into a depression, so they needed a government who could help them get out of the depression. The depression meant the people would turn to the extreme parties, which were the Nazis and the communists. Germany would turn to Hitler because the Nazis were offering very positive ideas, which were almost too good to be true, and were just what they needed.

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Germany needed a strong to leader to help control the economic situation, whilst Hitler was promising jobs and promised not to let Germany turn into a communist state. He had good ideas, which would benefit Germany greatly. This is what gained votes for his party.

Hitler’s promises had a wide appeal. Germany liked what Hitler was saying because he offered more jobs with fair wages, also he promised to bring an end the treaty of Versailles, which would pull Germany out of depression. He promised that the Treaty of Versailles would be cancelled and the land that had ...

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