The Rise of Hitler
The Rise of Hitler Critics of democracy often claim that Hitler was democratically elected to power. However this is untrue. Hitler never had the popular votes to become Chancellor of Germany, and the only reason he got the job was because the German leaders overestimated their influence over him. Some claim that Hitler's rise was nonetheless legal under the German system. The problem is that what was "legal" under the German system would not be considered legal under a truer and better-working democracy. In a democracy along the lines of the United States or Great Britain, Hitler could have never risen to power. Hitler used many resources to get to the top, including the weak Weimar republic, the Weimar constitution, the proportional voting system, and more. Hitler's incredible genius was able to spot these weak points without any difficulties. Not only did he see these flaws; he more importantly used them very effectively. The German Weimar Republic was doomed from the start. Germany had no democratic tradition, and in fact many parties were deeply opposed to the creation of a democracy. These included old monarchists, the Army, the industrialists, the Nationalists and several other conservative parties. Many, like the Nazis to come, were not so much members of the Republic as they were conspirators to overthrow it. When it came time to create the Republic, the
Why Hitler became chancellor
There is no simple answer as to why Hitler became chancellor in January 1933. There are a number of causal factors which all contributed to his rise into power Any of the factors, on its own, however, would not have resulted in his appointment. They are all linked in a web of causation and if any of the factors were missing, Hitler would not have been appointed chancellor. Of the factors, the Great Depression was the most important. The Treaty of Versailles only partly helped Hitler become chancellor. On 28 June 1919, Germany signed the Treaty with the allies, losing 10% of her land. The German army was reduced to 100,000 men and Germany had to pay reparations of £6,600 million. Hitler blamed the Treaty for Germany's problems. When Germany failed to pay a reparation instalment in 1922, French and Belgian troops entered German soil and seized goods. The German government ordered passive resistance but workers needed to be paid. The government printed money and hyperinflation set in. During this crisis in Germany, caused indirectly by the Treaty, when Hitler tried to seize power he was unsupported. Therefore the Treaty of Versailles, on its own, was not a reason why Hitler rose to power. After 1929, the Great Depression acted as a catalyst, igniting the German people's anger for the Treaty of Versailles and it then became a factor in Hitler's rise to power. Another reason
Hitler rise to power
Aditya Agarwal HISTORY To what extent was the rise to power of one right wing, single party ruler, the result of previous political problems? There was no sole cause for Hitler's rise to power. There were two. The political and economic chaos of the 1920's and the 1930's joined forces with German culture that enabled Hitler to rise to power. Hitler's rise to power was mainly through a legal change in the political system of Germany. Many political problems further aggregated the rise of Hitler to the post of a Chancellor in 1933 and then his rise to be the leader or the Fuhrerprinzip of Germany. Hitler learned from his past experiences of taking charge and trying to rise to power by the Munich Putsch after which he was arrested and then after a few years he started fresh with new ideas and strategies that favoured him. The Weimar was the republic that Hitler fought against to gain leadership but he failed, this action of leading the Munich Putsch put him behind bars where he planned a new strategy and sought to attain leadership through electoral means. Here were many political breakdowns that would help him, one being the break up of the Grand Coalition (coalition between the DDP, DVP, SPD and the Centre) and the other the use of the Presidential Powers under article 48 in the constitution. After becoming the leader of the Nazi party, he set his sights on overall power of
Rise of Adolph Hitler
Rise of Adolph Hitler Hitler 1919 Hitler 1933 Hitler 1935 Hitler 1938 Rhineland 1919-36 Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Austria. After the death of his father Alois in 1903 and of his mother Klara in 1907, Hitler moved to Vienna in 1908 to study art and architecture, but failed to be admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts, earned a meagre living painting postcards. In 1913, Hitler moved to Munich, and when the war began volunteered in a Bavarian regiment, earning the rank of Corporal and awarded the Iron Cross. After the war, Hitler was a member of the Freikorps, and in 1919 joined the German Workers' party that would become the NSDAP or Nazi party. In 1923, Hitler with Ernst Roehm who had formed the paramilitary SA brown shirts in the Nazi Party. sought to take over the Bavaria government in the Beer Hall Putsch of Nov. 8-9, but failed and Hitler served 9 months in prison where he wrote Mein Kampf ("My Struggle" dictated to Rudolph Hess) that emphasized anti-Semitism and the expansion of German living space. In 1925, Hitler seized leadership of a reorganized and newly legalized National Socialist German Workers' Party. In 1929, Hitler led a political campaign against the Young Plan of reparations payments. In the May 5 elections of 1932, Hindenburg defeated Hitler 53% to 37% for the presidency. But, there was no majority in the Reichstag for any party;
fatal attraction of hitler
Teena Nguyen History 10B J. Rooney WRITING TASK Explain the 'Fatal Attraction' of Hitler Founder and leader of the Nazi Party, Reich Chancellor and guiding spirit of the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945, Head of State and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on 20 April 1889. The son of a fifty-two-year-old Austrian customs official, Alois Schickelgruber Hitler, and his third wife, a young peasant girl, Klara Poelzl, both from the backwoods of lower Austria, the young Hitler was a resentful, discontented child. Moody, lazy, of unstable temperament, he was deeply hostile towards his strict, authoritarian father and strongly attached to his indulgent, hard-working mother, whose death from cancer in December 1908 was a shattering blow to the adolescent Hitler. Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born politician who led the National Socialist German Workers Party. He became Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933 and Führer in 1934. He ruled until 1945. Hitler discovered a powerful talent for oratory as well as giving the new Party its symbol - the swastika - and its greeting "Heil!." His hoarse, grating voice, for all the bombastic, humourless, histrionic content of his speeches, dominated audiences by dint of his tone of impassioned conviction and gift for self-dramatization. By November 1921 Hitler was recognized as Fuhrer
Adolf Hitler(1889-1945).
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) Born April 20, 1889 in the small Austrian town of Braunau, son of an Austrian customs official of moderate means. Hitler's early youth under the repressive influence of an authoritarian, short-tempered and domineering father until the latter's death in 1903. After an initially fine performance in elementary school, Adolf soon became rebellious and began failing college. Following transfer to another school, he finally left formal education altogether in 1905. In 1907, when his mother died, he moved to Vienna in an attempt to enroll in the famed Academy of Fine Arts with no success, living him in a great depression. He lived on a modest orphan's pension and the money he could earn by painting and selling picture postcards. It was during this time that he first became fascinated by the immense potential of mass political manipulation. Consequently, Hitler first developed the fanatical anti-Semitism and racial mythology that were to remain central to his own "ideology" and that of the Nazi party. In 1913 he returned to Munich, and after the outbreak of World War I a year later, he volunteered for action in the German army. During the war, he fought on Germany's Western front with distinction. In the spring of 1919 he found employment as a political officer in the army in Munich. In this capacity Hitler attended a meeting of the so-called German
Did Hitler plan war?
Did Hitler plan war? Before 1939, the year war broke out, there had been many events you could say where the build up to the second World War and that Hitler planned the whole thing years before. The other view is that Hitler was an opportunist and he planned round other peoples mistakes, like that of The Versailles Treaty and other European problems. Ian Kershaw takes this opinion and also does A. J. P. Taylor, " ...the outbreak may have owed so much to the faults and failures of European statesmen." Before Hitler knew that he was going to become Chancellor of Germany, and while he was still in prison, he wrote a book called Mien Kampf (1926). He wrote about his views, remedies and points on domestic and foreign dilemmas with advice on propaganda and political tactics. Though Taylor disagrees and believes these were just chimera, "...fantasies from behind bars". But when Hitler was asked about Mien Kampf in 1933 he replied, "...as to the substance there is nothing that I would want to change." Knowing the events that led to the second war Mien Kampf could possibly be seen as an outline to Hitler's plans and so he did plan war. Also the fact that when Hitler became Chancellor, he made the people of Germany read the book so that everyone would get an idea of what he planned for Germany. Hitler had some views that you could see as being on the same lines as that of
Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Hitler and Nazi Germany So many Germans supported the Nazi Party in the late 1920's and early 1930's because he offered a lot of jobs for the unemployed, he also promised to make Germany powerful again and he promised to help big business and force the communists out of power. He also gained support by using propaganda; he put posters up round the streets, advertised to mothers and children and used the radio to gain support. Hitler also created an army that would terrorise the streets of Germany and resolve crime that the Nazi Party created in the first place. He also showed heroism and organisation in times of chaos and disaster. The unemployment figures of 1928-33 show that the number of unemployed had risen over the past few years. When there was low unemployment the people of Germany voted for the communists, in contrast to this when there was high unemployment the German people voted for the Nazi Party as they had been led to believe that Hitler could resolve the unemployment problem in Germany. Therefore this shows that Hitler had won the hearts and minds of the unemployed in Germany. Adolf Hitler also used propaganda to win the votes of the Germans. He put up such posters showing people suffering in vain, the poster also contained the slogan 'Our last hope-Hitler' The poster is trying to persuade people that Hitler is the only person who can help them, therefore if
The rise of hitler
Assess the reasons why other political parties failed to prevent the rise of Hitler to power. (Do not include anything after 1933 in your answer) There are many arguments to why it was Hitler and the Nazis who came to power instead of any other political groups, for example the communists. There were plenty of other candidates but I will now explore why the German people democratically voted in the Nazis. The most important reason as to why the Nazis gained power in front of other political parties could be that the Nazi's had an extremely strong leader in Adolph Hitler; he was a good public speaker and made himself an image of being a strong and demanding figure. Many other parties had weaker leaders who could not compete with Hitler, this put them on the back foot as the German people needed a strong figure and at the time, they were facing troubled times after the Wall Street Crash and looked back to better times when they had the authoritarian figure of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Hitler was also an extremely good public speaker, he broke down his ideals into just a few simple phrases and then kept repeating them to the German people so that eventually they believed that his ideas were actually there's, Hitler would also start off his speeches very quietly and go through the speeches slowly raising his voice until he was shouting, this meant to start off with he got
The Rise Of Hitler
The Rise Of Hitler One of the main reasons why people voted for Hitler as a political leader was that he was a very good public speaker , after he returned to Munich, the Bavarian military command appointed him an instructor in a program for the political indoctrination of the troops. Hitler quickly found at that this party offered him a better chance for his new goal: political power. In April 1920 he left the army to devote all his time to his position as chief propagandist for the party. He designed a new system of political propaganda, one that showed mass emotionalism and lots of excitement. Hitler was the leader of the German people, and the party soon became a factor in Bavarian politics, mainly attracting the people of the middle classes. In July 1921 he became the chairman of the party with all powers. His goal was to defeat the government, but he had to compete with other Bavarian groups and with his friend a Bavarian officer.He advocated the position of chief of the military and wanted to incorporate the party's paramilitary units, called the SA, or Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung) into his secret army, while Hitler insisted on the primacy of politics. When the French occupied the Ruhr in January 1923, German nationalist feelings ran high, and military authorities prepared for mobilization. The views of Roehm and the other right-wingers now seemed to be
