Hitler's Rise to power?

Question

I've got to do an essay question, not exactly this but I would appreciate some help on any of the three factors, and how they impacted Hitler's rise to Chancellor, and power in Germany...

1. Wall Street Crash - I have done quite a bit of research on this, but if anybody can give me a simple and quick explanation on what caused it and how it ended...I think iv pretty much got its impact on Germany..

2. The Munich Putsch and Meinsomething....the book Hitler dictated whilst he was imprisoned....anything about the content of it?

3. The Treaty of Versailles - I know that this was a bit of the foundations, but i also know that it was pretty important in how Hitler got to chancellor....I'm still unclear on it though..

It's a lot to ask but if anybody knows anything about any of the points then, please!! Answer!! Thankyou so much.

Answer 1

The wall street crash led to the great depression. The impact of the depression on the already crumbling German economy created an environment ripe for leadership changes.

The book Hitler wrote (Mein Kampf) is basically a rant. I think if more people had read it he wouldn't have been elected in the first place.

The Treaty of Versailles left Germany in serious trouble financially. They were required to make huge reparations and there were serious limitations placed on their industry. Many German people thought they were treated unnecessarily harshly by the treaty. And the German economy imploded under the burden of payments, combined with some very poor decisions by the government at the time.

So, when Hitler started campaigning on a platform of returning Germany to glory, many people were eager to hear it and the idea appealed to them.

Answer 2

Im not really a hitler fan, but here is something interesting you could put in it.... And this is completely true.

Candidate A.
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologist.
He's had two mistresses. He chain smokes, drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.


Candidate B.
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in
college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

Candidate C
He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an
occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.





Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler

Answer 3

~1. Poverty and rampant inflation promote demagogues and their rosy philosophies and lend credence to their claims and promises to the hoi poloi.

The Great Depression was caused by the stock market crash, World War I, greed and uncontrolled capitalism with unregulated stock markets, the lack of strong national banks with authority to control and monitor banking, cash availability, interest rates and cash flow, or international trade and currency rates, and no international bank, coupled with a good deal of bad weather on the Great Plains, the Russian Steppes, the Ukraine and Africa thrown in. Not to mention the idiocy of the 1919 version of the Treaty of Versailles.

The depression ended by more sane economic policies being enacted worldwide, by implementation of FDR's socialist recovery and public works programs, by restraining unfettered capitalism in the US, by the National Socialist programs in Germany and the rebirth of the German industrial might, by control and regulation of currency, banking and stock markets, by the growth of industries in preparation of the coming war, by a break in the drought, and most significantly, by the inevitable upturn in the economic cycle. History is replete with periods of economic recession, depression, inflation and recovery. The Great Depression was simply another phase, although a more severe one, in the ongoing cycle and it would have ended of its own accord in time.

2. Come on, "Miensomething" ?- The Beer Hall putsch and Landsberg prison gave Hitler and Hess time to write "Mien Kampf", which outlined the rosy philosophy the demagogues were selling and into which the hoi poloi bought. The failed coup also gave a great deal of publicity to the theretofore unknown Hitler and his agenda which he would not have otherwise been able to obtain.

3. The Treaty of Versailles, the 1919 version to which you probably refer as opposed to any of the several others (including the one that ended the American Revolution which, in and of itself, impacted greatly on Hitler and WWII) so exacerbated the worldwide depression in Germany and so stripped Germany of any national pride or sense of worth and so stripped Germany of the means to survive as a free and independent nation, that the demagogue's rosy philosophies as outlined in "Mien Kampf" became not only palatable to the hoi poloi, but attractive.

You can't just read - you have to read then generalize and conceptualize: that is called learning, thinking and reasoning.



Or, you can be like jewle and just cut and paste something that you haven't bothered to read, which has nothing to do with the question and which requires about as much thought as that which enables a blade of grass to turn CO2 into oxygen.

Answer 4

This is going to sound short. But the easiest answer to this.

www.wikipedia.org

type hitler

then just to a search of the page for your key words

Answer 5

Hitler helped Germany out of economic ruin - when he realized that Jewish people ran the major businesses - well then all hell broke loose -did you read My Komf??

Answer 6

Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. His rise to power was facilitated by President Paul von Hindenburg, the German army and many politicians. Combining the posts of president and Chancellor, he acquired supreme authority of Germany by making the Nazi party as his powerbase to rise to power.

He first established a Nazi dictatorship by means of the Enabling Act. In March 1933, to obtain two-thirds of the majority needed to enact the Enabling Act, the Nazi party used the Reichstag fire to argue that a Communist revolution was imminent and thus depower the communists. Furthermore, the Nazi policies were much more appealing relatively to that of the failed Weimar Republic's and thus, large numbers turned to Hitler as they were longing for a period of stability within Germany after an unsuccessful rule by the Weimar Republic. Hitler was also able to convince Hindenburg to pass this law due to Hindenburg's senility and the influence of the Camarilla, particularly Oskar von Hindenburg. The enabling act helped Hitler gain as much power as possible and later he was not dependant on Hindenburg.[edit] The final act
The Nazis came to power through an alliance with some traditional conservative factions, although they experienced opposition from the opposing parties including the spd, kpd and zentrum party. Franz von Papen, a conservative former German Chancellor and former member of the Catholic Centre Party, supported Hitler for the position of Chancellor. Political and corporate engineering, which began immediately prior to January 30, 1933 presidentially appointed Hitler Chancellorship, which continued till March 23, 1933 Enabling Act that eventually gave Hitler dictatorial power. This Act passed with the support of the Huguenbergian German National People's Party (DNVP), a few liberals, and all conservative and centrist deputies in the constitutionally-disabled and effectively rigged Reichstag. This remaining bloc easily defeated the sole opposition of the Social Democrats, because a large proportion of the Communists had been either arrested or murdered.


[edit] Late 1932
Among the conservative forces who opposed Hitler, the most notable was Kurt von Schleicher, the chief Army political general and fixer who held the Chancellorship after Papen's, the failed aristocratic attempt at administration. Von Schleicher in late 1932 attempted to construct a "cross front" that would unite anti-Hitler factions on the right and center-left in the Reichstag. His failure to do so allowed Papen's second rise to power inside a Hitler coalition, and it was Papen who paved the way for Hitler's appointment as Chancellor.


[edit] The engineering of Hitler's 30 January appointment
Papen squared the Industrial Magnates and business class, squared the Bankers, squared the weapon-hungry Officer class and, through his personal influence with President Paul von Hindenburg, squared the landed Junkers. Papen intrigued between Hindenburg's son Oskar and the still despised Adolf Hitler. He then squared the Church through his aristocratic Catholic credentials and Vatican contacts made during his own Chancellorship. Papen persuaded Hindenburg to appoint Hitler into the 30 January 1933 minority and appointed cabinet with the aim of ensuring that he, Papen and the vested German political forces, would control Hitler. He is famous for saying that Now we have him where we can control him. Hindenburg accepted this DNVP/Nazi majority and rejected or did not understand the last minute von Schleicher threat of an Army putsch to resolve the crisis. Such a threat may have prevented Nazism from taking hold, but it was anathema to the terminating presidential ambition.


[edit] Rhenish-Westphalian industrial magnates
Reported as bankrupt in December 1932, the NSDAP or Nazi Party was in poor financial health by the middle of January because the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial magnates had assumed responsibility for its debts. These financial and industrial leaders had put the Nazi party back into the political arena after a large drop in the pro-Nazi vote in November 1932. In return, they had gotten promises to be paid back as, if and when Hitler came to power. It is reported that "without the formidable assistance of the industrialists the Nazi party would have foundered on the rocks of bankruptcy." (The Nemesis of Power by John Wheeler-Bennett, Macmillan 1953.)

The magnates petitioned President Hindenburg after the November elections seeking the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor. Amongst the 38 signatories of the petition were Hjalmar Schacht, Fritz Thyssen, Alfred Krupp, Siemens AG, Bosch and the heads of Hamburg-Amerika and the North German-Lloyd Shipping Lines. Hitler was assiduous in fulfilling his promises after achieving the chancellorship by eliminating the Communists, abolishing the trade unions, forcing no nationalization of industry and beginning rearmament on a huge scale.

Representing the industrial and financial force supporting Hitler, Hjalmar Schacht was accused at the Nuremberg trials, but cleared of the charges, of conspiracy to wage an aggressive war, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was sentenced in the de-nazification proceedings. See also the Krupp Trial was a similar trial, away from Nuremberg, where more war criminals were tried.
Mein Kampf



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