Hitler’s While there was a brief “Golden Age” of economic upturn, the death of Gustav Stresemann and especially the Wall Street Crash put a quick end of this. The Great Depression, caused by the Wall Street Crash, was the greatest factor that allowed Hitler to rise to power. Many historians believe in this theory, and call it “Nazism as a response to a crisis.” The Great Depression also caused an array of other factors that are commonly enabling Hitler’s rise. These include failure of democracy,
In the years 1930 – 1932 Bruning had lost popularity as he reduced unemployment benefit and increased taxes, all the time not having the majority backing of the reichstag (so he was dependant on Hindenburg's decree). Following the advice of Army officer Von Schleicer, Bruning was removed by Hindenburg, meaning a threat to Hitler's future power was eliminated. After this, Von Papen (a friend of Hindenburg) was appointed Chancellor. He was leader of the centre party but only had 68 supporters in the reichstag and like Schleicer, was dependant on the government by decree. In an attempt to gain more support, Von Papen held an election, only to be bested by the Nazis, who won by a landslide of 230 seats and as result, became the largest party of the Reichstag.
Why did Hitler become Chancellor in January 1933? There were many factors to explain why Hitler became Chancellor. They all played their part and in 1933 Hitler become Chancellor although perhaps not as he would have liked. Normally the leader of the party with the most votes in the Reichstag becomes Chancellor. In 1932 Hitler won 37.5 percent of the seats (230 seats) in the Reichstag making the Nazi party the largest in the Reichstag so Hitler should have been Chancellor.
Hitler became leader of Germany because he was leader of the most popular party’ How far do you agree with this statement? By 1933 Hitler had consolidated full power over Germany, it can be argued that the main reason he was able to achieve this power was purely down to the fact that he was the leader of the most popular party. However it seems to be clear that there are other factors, which resulted in Hitler becoming leader in Germany, such as the collapse of the Weimar constitution, the effects of the Great depression and the political actions of people such as Von Papen and Schleicher. Some may argue that Hitler had become such a powerful leader due to the popularity of the Nazi party. Anti – democratic figures had seen the Nazi party as potential allies to provide popular support for an authoritarian regime.
Unemployment hurtled upwards from 1.5 million to 4.3 million in just one year and had risen to 6 million by 1932. Many companies became bankrupt, leading to mass unemployment. Not only this, but with fewer workers meant fewer goods the companies were able to sell. Regardless of the companies being able to produce their goods, they would be unable to sell them due to extreme poverty that bellowed upon the German society. Money was required for food, heating and clothes, amongst other necessities.
Some historians say it was the consent and willingness of the German people that took him to Fuhrer but there are other strong arguments such as the Enabling Law, the demolishment of other political parties and trade unions, his agreements with the church, media and industrialists and the Night of the Long Knives. One of the main reasons Hitler was able to come into power was the consent from the German people. Without their willingness to believe and back Hitler, he wouldn’t have been able to gain any real momentum. On the 5th of March in 1933 the Nazis increased their vote from 33.1% to 43.9%, securing them 288 seats. One of the ways Hitler got the backing of the German people was by telling them what they wanted to hear.
This was important for Hitler’s rise to power as he gained huge population and support due to his impressive speeches. Hitler was also constantly on the ball with what he wanted to achieve and was ruthless and determined in getting it. This made him a strong central leader for Germany, just like the Kaiser who had been in power just 15 years earlier. This also helped Hitler in his rise as many people were still pining for a strong dictator and didn’t believe in a democratic government. Hitler was also very good at reorganising the Nazi Party from 1924 to
Also, Germany were restricted to an army only 100,000 strong, which lead to mass unemployment, making the lives of many Germans very difficult. Lastly, they weren’t allowed an air force and had a small navy which made them vulnerable also, when airplanes were beginning to be used commercially, the Germans weren’t able to have this luxury. On the other hand, I disagree with the statement as the Germans were one of the main reasons for the first war and although they weren’t completely to blame, they still were a big reason for the war. The German forces caused a huge amount of damage to France and Belgium and it would be unfair for these countries to have to pay for the repairs completely themselves through their population’s taxes. Also, if Germany were still allowed a full army force the Germans could restart another war or attack a country, which is what they want to prevent.
Labour promised to create a New Jerusalem, a prosperous country where all strive for the better. However, Source A states that “They had disastrously overestimated Britain’s ability to export”, Britain needed to create money for itself after America’s Lend Lease policy which left Britain in debt for over 50 years, Britain was unable to export a sufficient amount of goods to provide itself with enough money to stabilize the economy, the source follows up with “underestimated her need for dollars”. Britain’s way of dealing with debt was to create more debt for itself; John Maynard Keynes went over to the United States in order to ask America for a loan without interest, the loan which was bestowed upon Britain by the United States and Canada was $9.5 billion. One of the reasons Labour was unable to create a New Jerusalem was due to the fact that they were unable to shut down the debt which anchored Britain’s economy, Labour had little funds to initiate its promises and plans, leading to the failure of a New Jerusalem. Another reason that Labour failed to build a New Jerusalem was the fact that they were unable to upkeep their promise of housing.
How important was Hitler to helping the Nazi Party come to power in 1933? In this essay I will be answering the question ‘How important was Hitler to helping the Nazi Party come to power in 1933?’. To do this I will split it into 4 paragraphs: How Hitler was important in the rise of the Nazi Party, How the other Nazi leaders were important, How the Depression helped the Nazis and How the weakness of the Political System helped the Nazi’s. Before the 1920’s, the Nazi Party were a new extreme right wing political party called the German Workers Party. The party was created in 1919 by a railway mechanic called Anton Drexler.