In 1923, Hitler tried to seized power sriking on the government. Despite they failed, the Munich Putsch made the Nazi party famous, it gaved the party many propaganda, which was needed to arrive the chancellorship. Hitler knew from this event that the only way to arrive the top was from inside the constitution. This event was fairly important to Hitler because he needed to be well known all over the country. However, it wasn’t so important as Hitler’s charisma and oratorical skills. If the party needed propaganda, the best weapon of Hitler was his own character and speeches were he succeded to hit deeply on evey individual. As shown in videos, we knew exactly how to act, to make the crowd brake in hysteria in support of him. He made people look him as more than a leader, a god. And he flied all over the country in meetings to get people to know him. He had some fire in it, which made people follow him.
However, there is no doubt that his personality was essential, at least to become the figure he finally become, but the Great Depression was still more important. If we pay attention to the stadistics, the Nazi party was gradually winning votes before the Great Depression, but nothing in comparision from the 800.000 votes in 1928 just before the the economy depression, to the more than 6.5 million votes after it in 1933, which were traduced to 288 seats in the Reichstag, winning by a clear majority. The great depression acted as a catayalyst, speeding eneormously the gain of supporters. This is somehow linked the Treaty of Versailles (the gunpowder). German’s people could in one way or in other tolerate the consecuences of the treaty, but when the economic depression came araund, this soap bubble of anger bursted, and the anger consumed them. As shown in graphs, as people got unemployed (the consecuences of the depression), proportionally started to support the Nazi party. This showed that those who were in desesperate situation, were the one who listened the extremist ideas Hitler proposed, so him, as the unique alternative started to gain supporters. The depression litted up the gunpowder let by the Treaty of Versailles.
Here we can argue wether the Treaty of Versailles was more important than the economic depression, though both were needed equally. The depression was needed to burst pople angers left by the Treaty of Versailles that were accumulation inside of themselves, waiting to being litted up. We could say that the Treaty of Versailles was the most important long term cause and that the depression was the most important short term cause.
Anyway, that Hitler become the largest party didn’t meant that become chancellorship and gain full power of Germany. So the fact of approving the enabling act. Hindenburg saw Hitler as a strong person that could save the country of the unestable situation they were suffering and with the hope of him succeding, he offered him on January 1933 the place of chancellor. Now Hitler needed to destroy their major threaten, the communists. It was vital to him to eliminate the opposition. And for suprise (or not) of the Nazis, the 27th February the Reichstag building is set on fire, even though isn’t listed above. It was vital because he use it as an excuse to eliminate de communists agaisnt their threaten of seizing power an taking a revolution. This was important to the Hitler, because for the Nazi party to grow, they needed to eliminate the problematic competence. And that could not be possible with the powers that him as a Chancellor had.
However, Hitler didn’t seemed to be satisfied with the power of a Chancellor, he wanted more. And now that he could change the constitution, with the opposition intimidated proposes the Enabling Act, which finally was approved with or without the wills of the opponents thanks intimadation of the SS and SA. Approvig this was vital, it was his passport to the dictatorhip, and absolute power. In the other hand, it was very probable that Hitler would have end up with an idea to seize power even neither Chancellorship charge or Enabling Act were approved. Is very arguable that Hitler in case neither those two event occured, he would taken a coup d’état now that he had the enough power thanks the support of SS, SA army as millions of supporters that he didn’t have at the Munich Putsch. This is why i argue that this two events were so important, even though they were essential, soon or later a different short-term event such the one mentioned above would take to the summit of power.
Finally, i know certain that the fire that started Hitler’s rose to power was the by consecuences left by the Great Depression. Who could that a the mistake of the investors by conentrating too much in the interior economy of their country, at the other side of the world, would lead indirectly to the rose of one of the more cruel dictators in history. Of course, it wasn’t the only reason, all the other reasons were important too in greater or smaller degree. But if a thing is clear, is that every reason was essential to rise Hitler the point which he had reach.