Why was Hitler able to come to power in Germany by January 1933?

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Why was Hitler able to come to power in Germany by January 1933

By Ashwin Bhoobun

        In January 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor by Hindenburg. In this essay I will explain how he was able to then take control of Germany. I will explain this under two sections.

        In this paragraph I will explain all the factors outside hitless control. I believe that one of the biggest factors for Hitler becoming to power was the Wall Street crash. The Wall Street crash was where the American economy collapsed causing Germany to have to pay back the American loans, leaving them in a poor state. Because of the Wall Street crash, the country suffered tremendously. This means that the people of Germany wanted a new leader, this is the most likely period where an extremist party is likely to be more popular because, the country was very unstable, Hitler was then able to tell the people the problem and just fix it. Hitler was able to use the Wall Street crash to his advantage saying that he was able to provide quick solutions.  The next factor was the weakness of the Weimar government. The government was mainly weak because it was a coalition government, this means that it was made up of a large party and also lots of small other parties, because of this they were never able to make decisions as they would all think differently. Hitler used this to his advantage because the people of Germany had no faith in their government; he was able to say that his party were very stable. The next factor was the desire to return to Kaiser Figure, this was good to Hitler because the Kaiser government was very successful, and it was autocratic, and it had a strong leadership, this helped because the people of Germany wanted a strong government so that it would have been able to make the country stable. The next factor was the use of article 48, this meant the president was able to rule by decree this means that if there’s trouble the president can take supreme rule and can do what he likes. The next factor was the growth of communism, this was good for Hitler his party believed in communism so if he was a communist party, and there were more communists so he was going to become more popular. The last reason was the failure of the Munich putsch, this was quite important because. Firstly because, it incited him with more aggression towards the government. Another reason was that whilst he was in prison it gave him time to plot how he would take rule and come up with new strategies. Another reason was that it gave him time to write his book 'mein kampf'. The last reason was that it might have given him increased recognition.

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        In this paragraph I will explain hitter’s ideas and actions and how they helped him to come to power. Hitler had done several things to help him come to power. The first being setting up the SA, this was Hitler’s personal police force. The SA’s job was to beat up other members of Hitler’s opposing parties and also to intimidate them, this would help Hitler because his oppositions would think twice before doing any thing that Hitler would not like, and this meant that Hitler was quite in control of the other parties. The next action that helped Hitler ...

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