To what extent was the great depression the reason for Hitlers rise to power?

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To what extent was the great depression the reason for Hitler’s rise to power?

Adolf Hitler (1889- 1945) was one of the most evil and atrocious dictators all around the world. He wanted to take over Europe and to eliminate Jews, take then their property to finance his war. He and his NDSP party were responsible for the genocide of the Jewish people and the insanity that his party ruled Germany. There are many factors which lead Hitler to power, but the main one is the great depression that almost destroyed Germany. Hitler took advantage to the weakness of the Weimar Republic and the chaos of what Germany was, to persuade by the use of propaganda and speeches, millions of people and finally rise to power.

On January 30th, 1933 President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as he had successfully campaigned the Nazi party and had become the most popular party in Germany. He was legally elected from a government, but the real question is how he manipulated the majority of German people to believe his insane ideas and help him rise to power? First of all due to the great depression, Germany was passing through the worst moment in history, Germans were starving and dying full of diseases and it seem like none could help them so they were desperate. Hitler used his image to look powerful and convince the population that he would help and he would do something to help them, even though he didn’t know what he was going to do. He had a loud, strong, monotonous voice that gave people the feeling of security with him. He made think people that he was extremely angry about the state of their country but that he was going to something about it. His voice made people think he had a great control of power, but it was not only the aspect of him that made him look this way, his military clothes that made him look elegant, but not rich make him the lower classes appealing due that his had come from lower classes to. He was a brilliant speaker, good organizer and politician that seemed like he really knew what he was doing and he was going to save Germany from the disgrace.

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Joseph Goebbels, (1897- 1945) was Hitler’s head of propaganda which gave him power all over German radio, newspapers, cinema and theaters. He had to main tasks which were: to ensure nobody in Germany could see anything damaging for the Nazi party. With this task what Hitler wanted was that German people only so advertisement form them, and as the insane” ideas”, that Jews where the cause for their disgrace, and that they needed to eliminate them and that young people since 10 (Hitler youth) had to join the Nazi party, were repeated and repeated in a continuous and monotonous way ...

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