How Hitler Became Chancellor In 1933 Essay

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How Hitler Became Chancellor in 1933 On 30th January 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor by President Hindenburg. This was truly a day of pure luck for Hitler and was merely the end result of a variety of reasons that contributed to his attainment of this title. Historians are able to categorise these reasons into three areas; Nazi Strengths (Hitler's speaking skills, propaganda, violent treatment of the opposition, Nazi policies and the stab in the back theory), Opposition Weaknesses (failure to deal with the depression and failure to co-operate) and finally Other Factors (effects of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany and memories of hyperinflation). In my opinion Nazi policies, the opposition's …show more content…

All of the other factors were also required to gain so many votes, but the policies were the most necessary in making Hitler a step closer to becoming Chancellor. Another area that contributed to Hitler becoming Chancellor was the weaknesses of the opposition. They had two major weaknesses that Hitler was able to play upon to gain more support for the Nazi's. I feel the most important of the two was the oppositions failure to co-operate with one another as the other factor (the opposition's failure to deal with the depression) could have been prevented if the parties were able to co-operate. After WW1 the Weimar Constitution was to become one of the most advanced democracies in Europe and so a system of proportional representation was introduced in order to allow even small parties to gain seats in the Reichstag. Therefore everyone's preferred political party often got to represent them. This would have been a clever system, except this meant there were lots of different parties with very different views in the Reichstag. The phrase 'two many cooks spoil the broth' is highly appropriate …show more content…

In general more people suffered from hyperinflation than those who gained from it. The people blamed the government as they had signed the Treaty that had caused these horrific circumstances. Hitler gained even more support as his 'stab in the back' theory verified this fact and he promised to abolish the Treaty if he got into power. Although hyperinflation was important in Hitler getting closer to becoming Chancellor it was merely a problem that derived from the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty was defiantly one of the most important reasons as to why Hitler got into power, as it was the source of all of Germany's problems. Through the Treaty of Versailles Germany were forced to pay the horrendous reparations, which ultimately led to starvation and death. Germany lost its overseas empires and rich industrial areas of land such as the Sudetenland, which were needed for money so Germany could re-build after the war and pay the ridiculous reparations. They also lost their main trading port (Danzig) to the Treaty and many countries did not trust

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