To what extent is the most important reason for the rise of the Nazis Hitler himself?

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Amy Lake

To what extent is the most important reason for the rise of the Nazi Hitler himself?

There is a number of contributing factors that allowed Hitler to come into power in 1933. The period between 1929 and 1933 was characterised by overall crises due to the political and economic situation. This created the perfect condition to change the government, system and the leader, because of the population’s discontent with the situation, the Nazi Party jumped at the opportunity to gain power and carry out the ‘Nazi revolution’,

When talking about causes, it’s easy to see that the most relevant cause was the decision by Papen and Hindenburg to appoint him as Chancellor in 1933. In 1928 Hitlers Nazi party was very small and insignificant, but by 1933 when Hitler was appointed and the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party) had risen from extremely low position to total power. Although Hitler wasn’t appointed straight away, if it wasn’t for Schleicher having problems handling his charge and power as Chancellor and resigning his postion. Hinderburg did think about Von Papen for chancellor but he realises this could bring problems to himself. In the end Von Paper insists that if Hitler is the Chancellor, there would only be a limited number of sits for the Nazis in the council.  Hinderburg thought that if Hitler was appointed the Chancellor position he would be able to oversee what he was getting up to and what his future plans were. Hitler was given power in a seedy political deal by Hinderburh and Papen who foolishly though they could control him. This didn’t go to plan; this was because Hitler now had the power to call another elections so that he could gain more power and also gave him the opportunity to ban communist meetings and also newspapers. This was an important reason of Hitler’s rise to power because it gave Hitler’s party the power over the others to prepare the party for what it had in plan. This also gave the Nazi Party publicity which helped the party gain members which extended the party to a much larger figure.

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The Treaty of Versailles was also another important reason that helped Hitlers rise to power, at the time Germanys government was a coalition of two political parties, Social Democrats and Peoples Parties. This government was both in favour of the Treaty and wanted Germany to pay back the reparations.  The Weimar Republic was set up to help Germany out of their economic crisis at the time, but instead Germany lost a lot of their land and the German people became very hostile towards that current Government. Hitler was able to exploit the weakness of the government and use it as ...

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