The Weimar government was a coalition government, so the parties within it were unable to agree on several key areas and was therefore, unable to make the necessary changes to the economy to halt the economic turn down.
At the time, most of Germany was full of a lot of communists (mainly Jews). They had attended the speeches which Hitler made in the beer hall, but there were mainly Germans there. Hitler’s speeches were very persuasive. They convinced the Germans that the Jews were there enemies. In 1933 on the 27th of February the Reichstag fire occurred; this gave Hitler the ideal reason to ban the communists from the Reichstag on the voting day, as he gave them the blame for the fire.
“Hitler achieved power by democratic means”
Do you agree?
Throughout my assignment I will explore ideas on whether or not Hitler achieved power by democratic means. I will also identify and define my opinion whether Hitler even used some means of democracy, and what means he used to take control over Germany before he availed himself to the Reichstag.
The state of Germany after the war was very bad, mainly because of the
“Treaty of Versailles, this humiliated the Germans a lot as they had been betrayed by the civilian government. They were also in a state of depression so at this time the German people wanted a new leader to take them out of this humiliation
At first, Hitler tried to use guns and force, the non democratic way to take control over Germany along with the S.A. The S.A was a group of six hundred storm troopers (ex army officers and soldiers) who had been betrayed by the civilian government. Hitler had persuaded these men to become nationalists, and they wanted to assist Hitler and help him get scour of all the Jews in Germany. This was because Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany’s problems.
One of Hitler’s attempts to take control over Germany was the Munich Putsch. Hitler marched into the beer hall with six hundred storm troopers on his side. He pointed a gun to Von Kahr’s head; forcing him to promise to support him and help hi, to take control over the government. Von Kahr was defenseless and couldn’t refuse Hitler’s proposal. However, the government was capable of controlling the armed forces and got arrested soon after. He received quite a long sentence, of which he only did nine months.
While Hitler was in jail he wrote a book called “Mein Kampf”
(My struggle), this book mainly outlined Hitler’s beliefs, while he was in jail. Hitler also thought of legitimate ways for the Nazi’s to take control as trying to take control by force had him incarcerated. The failure of the Munich Putsch taught Hitler a lesson making him more emerged, focused and more determined to succeed. Hitler now realized that this form of approach would not be widely supported. Therefore in prison he began to develope
