Fascism In Germany

Hitler’s assumption of power on the 30th of January 1933 was seemingly due to the mass popularity of the Nazi party. However it was far off achieving the 50% majority it needed to put Hitler automatically in power. As well as popularity, backstairs intrigue and the short-sightedness of those in power enabled Hitler to become Chancellor. The weaknesses of Germany’s political leadership were fundamental to Hitler’s success. In some senses the popularity of the party only provided an opening, available for exploitation.

The Nazi group had a major impact on the government and influenced the decision for the next Chancellor of Germany. “...Paul von Hindenburg, had appointed Hitler Chancellor. Having won more than 37 percent of the vote in the previous year's legislative elections, Hitler's Nazi party had enough power to effectively paralyze Germany's democratic government, which had been in place since 1919,” Smith says (pg.15). This shows that Hitler's Nazi group was extremely powerful and explains how Hitler arose to power. This quote reveals that Hitler had the most power since 1919, which demonstrates how powerful Hitler will become in the future. “By the early 1930’s, Germany was in desperate shape. Its defeat in World War One and the harsh conditions imposed by the United States, Britain, and France in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles - included debilitating reparation payments to the victors - had left Germany humiliated and impoverished, with ruinous inflation eating away at its economy. The worldwide Depression that followed the 1929 U.S. stock market crash exacerbated the situation as banks

Hitler and the Nazis gained power on 30 January 1933. By March that year Hitler had total power over the country.

Even though Germany was left in a period of struggle and economic weakness after WW1, Adolf Hitler would take a stand by creating a party that would help refine the structure of the economy. This party, when abbreviated, was called Nazi, would also create harsh laws and unrelentless punishment. Due to the Nazi party’s quick growth, there was an immediate impact on lifestyle and politics for the people of Germany. The long term impact brought forth by the consequences or legacy of the Nazi party included a population decrease and an increase in deaths. To make both of these impacts, Hitler had to overcome many hard challenges.

On January 30, 1933, Adolph Hitler was named chancellor, the most powerful position in the German government.

The Great Depression played a big role in helping the Nazi Party capture power. Many nations were suffering from the Great Depression in 1930, including Germany who had to pay for the war reparations. During this period of economic and politic crisis, the country had been easily influenced by the politics parties. They wanted someone who is capable and had what it takes to be their leader to lead them through the huge crisis that they were facing. Most Germans who are in desperate state as they wanted Germany to be like once, able to be proud of and not in such a state where they had to struggle to fulfill the almost impossible terms of the Treaty of Versailles. They considered that period as a disgraceful decade in their history. Due to

Hitler attracted many Germans that wanted it change through his powerful speaking. He persuaded everyone a better life and a better and prosperous Germany. In 1923 while Hitler was imprisoned, he wrote his book “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle) which expressed his ideas about radical theory and Nazi dominion. He realized that he must apply legitimate democracy in his struggle to seize power. The Nazi party was mostly liked by the lower middle class, the employed, and the young people. This party rose to power rapidly. Before the economic depression occurred, the Nazi party was unknown, winning only 3 percent of the vote to the German parliament in the 1924 election. But in the 1932 election, the Nazi party won 33 percent which was more than any of the other parties. By January 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor which gave him the job of being

In my opinion, I believe that the Great Depression was the most significant factor towards the growth of the Nazi Party as this was the time when the Nazi Party grew rapidly from only 12 seats in May 1928 to 107 in September 1930 and became the second largest party in Germany, following after the KPD. This was down to the economic crisis in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash, which weakened the Weimar Republic by discrediting its policies, consequently making the democratic politics less popular. The government seemed powerless to stop the depression, especially because Stresemann, an influential democratic politician, had died in October 1929.

In 1930s Hitler’s Nazi Party gained a lot of populations in Germany, and they were anti-semtic and also against mentally handicapped people and homosexuals. And Hitler used Jews as an excuse of unemployments and economic depression. And Adolf HItler promised that he would overturnthe Versailles Treaty which set limits to German economy, territories and military activities, and cause the economy depression in Germany. Therefore, Hitler gained a lot of supporters. According to History.com, “In the federal elections of 1930 (which followed the Wall Street Crash), the Nazi Party won 107 seats in the Reichstag (the German Parliament), becoming the second-largest party. The following year, it more than doubled

Hitler By Cameron Perry ` Mrs. Giardino “Propaganda is a truly terrible weapon in the hands of an expert.” – Adolf Hitler, 1924. Although the world thought that World War I would end all wars, a little over 20 years later a leader emerged to disprove that theory. Adolf Hitler was elected the Reich Chancellor (head of the German government) in 1933 after fighting a hard election.

With how things had stacked up, it was easy for Hitler to become a new, well-liked leader with his party. Many Germans were defeated and were easily swayed with what Hitler promises to give them. He promised those who were acutely disappointed in their nation a new and better life and a “glorious Germany” “Hitler Comes To Power”. On the 30th of January in 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor that brought an end to the German democracy “Nazi Rule” and from there “many Germans [had] believed that they had found a savior for their nation” “Hitler Comes To Power”. Hitler’s party wasn’t as well known before the depression struck, but the party soon appealed to those who were unemployed, young, and those in the lower-middle-class “Hitler Comes To Power”. In Hitler’s first months of being chancellor, he forced “workers, employees, and employers…into Nazi organizations” “Nazi Rule”. By adding more people and growing his party, Hitler was able to rebuild Germany. He was originally denied many things, due to the Treaty of Versailles. He was limited to only 100,000 men in his army, have six warships max, etc. Hitler ignored the treaty and proceeded to rebuild Germany by having and getting what he needed to reshape Germany in-order to having it become an efficient country. He had factories

Fascism and its racist offshoot, Nazism, were obvious causes of many of the actions of Germany and Italy during World War II. The primary facets of Fascism which affected German and Italian actions the hatred of the Jews, specifically blaming them as the reason for losing WWI, along with their glorification of the government and belief in social darwinism.

On the 30th January 1933 Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Hitler came to power as the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, more commonly known as the Nazi Party. In the July election of 1932 the Nazis received the highest vote ever achieved by any party in Weimar History with 13.7 million votes. This is a crucial point in history as it was Hitler who led the world into World War II which resulted in the death of 60 million people. Many questions are asked as to how such a man could legitimately come to power and create a totalitarian dictatorship in a modern country such as Germany. One popular reason for Hitler coming to

Adolf Hitler was not elected to power in Germany by an overwhelming upsurge of popular demand. The Nazi Party certainly achieved substantial support, winning 37 percent of the total vote in the 1932 election.This made it the largest party in the Reichstag, but it was Franz von Papen and other conservatives who persuaded the German president, Field Marshal von Hindenburg, to appoint Hitler as chancellor in a coalition government.He was the most powerful political leader in the country, but was a demagogue with no experience of government and they believed they would be able to bring him under control, while an alliance with the Nazis would bring them the support they needed in the Reichstag.It was a disastrous misjudgement. Von Papen became vice-chancellor, but Hitler used his position adroitly to achieve a dictatorship, partly by building on reports of a supposed Communist conspiracy against the state. In March the Reichstag conferred dictatorial powers on him for four years. In June of the following year, in what he called ‘the night of the long knives’, Hitler eliminated about a hundred rivals. Hindenburg died in August 1934 and Hitler was proclaimed Führer of the German Reich, head of state and commander of the armed forces, giving him dictatorial power over the country. The consequences are only too well known.

Germany was in a state of ruins after World War One, causing long term hatred and bitterness toward the Allies, a few blamed the communists, Jews, and other ethnic groups. Since they were giving money to compensate for what had gone wrong, an economic depression broke out because taxes got raised, which caused many companies and factories to shut down, leading to mass unemployment. Many of the unemployed searched for new jobs and the most promising was joining the NSDAP, or the Nazi party. There is also the weak constitution, causing the government to cripple, which helped Hitler to rise to becoming not only the führer, but also the President. Another factor would be propaganda.