Hitler
History Essay: ‘Hitler’s rise to power was due partly to his strengths and partly due to the weakness of the Weimar Republic’
There were many factors which contributed to Hitler’s rise in power, such as the fact that the Weimar Republic had many weaknesses of their own, and that Hitler himself had many strengths.
There were many side effects of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the main one being the ‘guilt clause’. Germany was forced to take complete blame for starting the war and pay reparations. The ‘guilt clause’ enraged many German citizens, they thought it was humiliating and disrespectful to Germany herself. The atmosphere was also not helped by that fact that many German citizens blamed the government for the war, and thought it was not fair for themselves to take the blame. Another fact is that Germany would never have been able to pay the full cost of the reparations.
An amount Germany had to pay as reparation was not set until sometime after the treaty of Versailles was signed, it was decided that Germany had to pay £6.600 billion, an amount that even today is considered ludicrous. Most of the money that Germany was paying went to France and Belgium, to pay for repairs to infrastructures which had gotten demolished or damaged during the war. Germany was able to pay the first few instalments but when the German government failed to make its January 1923 payment, French and Belgian troops invaded the Ruhr, and began to take in kind what they were owed. German miners in the Ruhr refused to work for the French and went on strike, which created hyperinflation.
Hitler is known to have had many strengths of his own, which made it a lot easier for him to take power and eventually become the Cult of Fuhrer. One of Hitler’s main strengths were that he had complete control of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), most commonly referred to as the Nazi Party. The Nazi Party mains source of its power rise is that Hitler himself was
There were many factors which contributed to Hitler’s rise in power, such as the fact that the Weimar Republic had many weaknesses of their own, and that Hitler himself had many strengths.
There were many side effects of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the main one being the ‘guilt clause’. Germany was forced to take complete blame for starting the war and pay reparations. The ‘guilt clause’ enraged many German citizens, they thought it was humiliating and disrespectful to Germany herself. The atmosphere was also not helped by that fact that many German citizens blamed the government for the war, and thought it was not fair for themselves to take the blame. Another fact is that Germany would never have been able to pay the full cost of the reparations.
An amount Germany had to pay as reparation was not set until sometime after the treaty of Versailles was signed, it was decided that Germany had to pay £6.600 billion, an amount that even today is considered ludicrous. Most of the money that Germany was paying went to France and Belgium, to pay for repairs to infrastructures which had gotten demolished or damaged during the war. Germany was able to pay the first few instalments but when the German government failed to make its January 1923 payment, French and Belgian troops invaded the Ruhr, and began to take in kind what they were owed. German miners in the Ruhr refused to work for the French and went on strike, which created hyperinflation.
Hitler is known to have had many strengths of his own, which made it a lot easier for him to take power and eventually become the Cult of Fuhrer. One of Hitler’s main strengths were that he had complete control of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), most commonly referred to as the Nazi Party. The Nazi Party mains source of its power rise is that Hitler himself was