Why did Hitler become Chancellor in January 1933?
There are several reasons why Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933 but one of the main reasons is because Franz von Papen and Hindenburg made him Chancellor themselves as they thought he would be harmless as a chancellor because his popularity was at that point going down already. They also thought that they could control him but at that moment they made a huge mistake because they could never control Hitler as he was simply much too clever and had to greater ideas.
There were reasons why Hitler became chancellor that were out of the Nazi control like Von Papen and Hindenburg appointing him chancellor. Also if the socialists and the Communists had worked together they would have easily got more seats in the Reichstag together than the Nazis. They also both did not want Hitler to become very powerful since he wanted the opposite than what they both wanted. But they could not join together because of their past, before all this had happened the socialists had killed a few of the communists leaders so although they wanted the same thing they could not work together because of this. Another huge factor why Hitler became Chancellor was the depression. At one point before all the hyper-inflation there was nothing wrong or bad in people’s lives so no one would vote for an extreme right wing party when there’s nothing wrong in their lives. The depression kicked in once the hyper-inflation had happened and once that had happened the people would vote for anyone who would get rid of the democracy because it was what people blamed for the hyper-inflation and Hitler had promised the people this and a lot more.
