Causes Of Hitler's Takeover Of Germany In The 1930s

When the stock market on Wall Street crashed in 1929, it sent financial markets world wide into an era of catastrophe. Germany’s economy significantly suffered because of this, for it heavily relied on foreign trade and loans from America. This coupled with war debts from WWI and the loss of its two provinces through the Treaty of Versailles caused production levels to fall and banks to close. Masses of people lost their jobs and the inflation rate increased daily. The standard of living that so many Germans enjoyed had been ruined. This was the moment in which Hitler received his opportunity to begin his takeover of Germany. In the years before the Great Depression, Adolf Hitler had been growing his Nazi Party with little success. In a country of over 60 million people, his party had less than 100,000 members. The Nazi party was a German National Socialist party. They believed in the Aryan race, which was their definition of the most perfect race. The Nazis also believed in a government
Their comfortable lifestyle was stripped of them because of an economic depression that they couldn’t find anyone to blame for. In the midst of the confusion, Hitler began to deliver Nazi propaganda to the public through his speeches. In his speeches he blamed other countries for the misfortunes that occurred in Germany. He said that the Treaty of Versailles was an unfair agreement that was made to try and destroy Germany. He also attacked Jewish people in his speeches; claiming that as the German population became poorer, they were staying rich. Hitler encouraged nationalism in his speeches, and talked about how he would revive old German glory. Through his speeches, Hitler was able to amass an astronomical amount of supporters, most of which had been hit hard by the economic issues in the country. These people were of the lower middle class and peasantry, and ate up every word that Adolf Hitler