The Most Important Factors that Led Up to Hitler's Rise to Power in 1933

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The Most Important Factors that Led Up to Hitler's Rise to Power in 1933

Hitler was perhaps the most important figure in modern history. He led

the Axis armies in Europe, he killed millions of Jews, homosexuals,

gypsies, and other minority groups that he felt should be

exterminated. Although he was a dictator of Germany he was voted into

power in 1933. It is incredible to think today that a man of such

obvious evil should be voted into power. In 1928 the Nazi party only

had 12 seats in the Reichstag; in 1932 the Nazi party had 230 seats.

This is a huge increase over less than 10 years it shows that vast

outside factors must have affected Germany to change so many votes.

Several factors here vital to and lead up to the rise to power of

Hitler.

After the WWI the treaty of Versailles was signed. This was a peace

treaty of a kind but it is more punishment to Germany for losing war;

much land on its west to France and Belgium and lost land on the West

to Poland and Lithuania, t also lost its colonies in Africa to France

and Britain as well as loss of colonies in the Pacific. It also

limited their army to just 100,000 men and their navy 15,000 men as

well as limits on size and number of ships. They were not allowed to

own tanks plains or submarines this made the Germans hate the ally

nations, many were keen to fight and felt that they had not lost the

war reparations also caused economic crises in Germany. Germans hated

the points of this treaty, they felt a sense of betrayal, they felt it

was not signed with there consent, Hitler proposed to destroy it and

people supported him for this. The treaty was extremely harsh on the

Germans a...

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self and out of all the radical solutions Hitler's policies inspired

the patriotic nature of a nation in crises and told them it was not

there fault but gave them scapegoats to blame for the state of

Germany. This all gave Hitler support witch he used to get into power

witch was used in the worse ways.

So I believe that treaty of Versailles coupled with the reparations

forced on to Germany this set up every thing for Hitler. Without them

there would not be the environment for a radical party like the Nazis

to be of any significance. Although it is debatable weather it was bad

luck with the Wall Street crash, I feel that a loaded gun is bound to

go off and there would off been a rise of the extreme right or left

with the treaty of Versailles and reparations in place. All the other

points were just an aid to this.

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