The Reasons for Hitler's Rise in Power in 1933

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The Reasons for Hitler's Rise in Power in 1933

In 1928 Hitler’s Nazi party was very small and insignificant. By 1933

however Hitler was the chancellor of Germany and the NSDAP had risen

from extremely low position to total power.

There is a number of reasons why Hitler came to power in 1933. The

period between 1929 and 1933 was characterised by overall crises, not

only in political and economical, but also in social sphere, which

created perfect condition to change government, system and the leader.

Because of people’s discontent with the overwhelming situation, the

Nazi party jumped at the opportunity to gain power and carry out so

called ‘Nazi revolution’.

In order to explain the reasons why Hitler took over the German state,

one has to start of with answering the question why the Nazi party

come to power in the first place.

First of all, it is extremely important to explain the political

situation in Reich, which had a direct influence on the following

events. Despite of the relatively prosperous period between 1924 and

1928, which weakened the right-wing radical potential, the

parliamentary democracy had not struck firmer roots, which meant that

there was a possibility of revival of nationalist-conservative

movement. This was also reflected by winning the election by

Hindenburg, who felt no ties with liberal parliamentarism at all.

Another problem which caused the crisis in politics was the fact that

parties did not want to take responsibility for the stability of

republican political system, which led to destruction of government

coalition, frequent changes of the government and finally to falling

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...y. Society, economy and politics in the twentieth

century’ – V.R.Berghahn (Cambridge University Press, 1982)

4 - ‘Hitler and collapse of Weimar Germany’ – Martin Broszat (Berg

Publishers Ltd., 1987)

5 – ‘A history of modern Germany. 1840 – 1945’ – Hajo Holborn (Eyre

and Spottiswoode, 1969)

6 – ‘Hitler. 1889 – 1936: Hubris’ – Ian Kershaw (the Pengyin Press,

1998)

7 – ibid.

Bibliography:

‘Hitler and collapse of Weimar Germany’ – Martin Broszat

‘Modern Germany. Society, economy and politics in the twentieth

century’ – V.R.Berghahn

‘A history of modern Germany. 1840 – 1945’ – Hajo Holborn

‘The divided nation. A history of Germany. 1918 – 1990’ – Mary

Fulbrook

‘Hitler. 1889 – 1936: Hubris’ – Ian Kershaw

‘Modern Germany reconsidered. 1870 – 1945’ – Gordon Martel (Routledge,

1992)

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