How Did Adolf Hitler's Rise To Power

Adam Freeman

Mr. Gotsell

U.S History II

4/10/15

Hitler's Rise to Power

At the end of World War I, Germany was in shambles, there were many young men dead, many seriously injured, and a lot of damage to cities, factories, homes, and transportation. In the face of this devastation, the German public fell under the influence of Adolf Hitler, who was very intelligent and knew that he could teach the german people however he wanted since they were in need of great help.

Adolf was born in 1889 on April 20th, as a child he gathered his anti semitic ideas in Vienna. As people would join in and discriminate against other religions, like the Jews. At a young age both of his parents ended up dying and leaving him parentless the rest of his life.

It became the leading party in Germany carrying almost all of the supporters. Hitler had to make some changes though, so the party would not fall again. He reduced the number of stormtroopers and instead added a new branch to the Nazi party which was the SS or the secret service. He used the SS as a bodyguard to protect himself, which he would use for a long time. He also set up a network of local parties as he merged with other right-wing parties, then took them over to grow even more. Then he would set up the Hitler Youth, which attracted young people to the party. This was very important because later on they would grow up and teach others about the party and spread Hitler's ideas which just made him even stronger. He put Josef Goebbels in charge of propaganda. Goebbels and Hitler believed that the best way to get the support of the masses was by appealing to their feelings rather than by argument. They would put out a propaganda campaign using posters, radio, and film, and organised rallies to gain even more supporters. Propaganda had a huge impact on Hitlers rise into power because without it he wouldn't be able to target the people as well as he did and drag them into the party. Most of the propaganda was aimed at other groups especially the Jews which got people fired up and angry at them, but at the same time very pleased with Hitler's performance as a new leader. One of the

Right from the start of it when he became the leader of the German Workers party everyone knew that he was a little bit crazy on the inside, but no one knew what he was capable of doing. Ultimately his power grew stronger by the day and he knew what he was doing with it right from the beginning. Which made him such a successful leader. He found Germany at their weakest point and knew the citizens of the country would do anything to not live in poverty. So Hitler took his chances and decided to join the Nazi party which at first was the lowest ranked party but as time went on. More people were fond of Hitlers ideologies and jumped right on the bandwagon. Eventually he decided to bring the Jews into the situation as a scapegoat to blame for WWI and the Treaty of Versaille. This made people even more angry at all of the Jews but happy that Hitler is trying to fix the problem at hand. Then came all of his speeches to the people and making them feel happy about what he is going to do while he keeps promising them that better is to come for Germany. As raids happened and concentration camps were built he was ready to discriminate against an entire race of people. While doing so he had the half a million men ready to fight in the largest war, which excited