Hitler's Rise To Power
Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician and leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party gained victory as the Fuhrer (Combination of Chancellor and President) only 10 years after the Munich Putsch of 1923. Many factors contributed to his rise to power within this period. Factors include his charismatic personality, key individuals and groups, President Paul Von Hindenburg, Franz Von Papen, Kurt Von Schleicher, Dr Joseph Goebbel. The role of these key individuals influenced the significant events assessing how Hitler was able to rise to power, Wall Street Crash, The Great Depression, Political Elections, Reichstag Fire, Implementation of the Enabling Act and the Death of Hindenburg. This lead to one of the most important historical
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This introduced the onslaught of hyperinflation 1923 and the disastrous crisis of the Great Depression 1929. The Weimar Republic suffered political disorder, violence and economic hardship. One in particular, the signing of The Treaty of Versailles, specifically the guilt clause 231, a dictated treaty "diktat" forced upon them, given responsibility for the destructions and deaths caused during the First World War. The Treaty demanded a loss of 15% of land, 12% of people, 10% of industry and a total reparations bill set of US$32 billion dollars. This in turn created immense hatred toward the government, referred these Political signatories of the Armistice as "November Criminals" of which was believed to be unpatriotic. Karl Ludecke, an early follower of Hitler in 1924 expresses "Of course, I was ripe for this experience. I was a man of 32, weary with disgust and disillusionment, a wanderer …show more content…
Powerful opponents such as industrialists, the Prussian Land Aristocracy and the army who favoured all aspects of the Nazi Party created difficulties for the government to gain substantial results. This marked the rising of Hitler's National Socialist German Worker's Party, The Nazi Party (NSDAP).
The economic disaster of 1923 is an eminent factor in addition to German society's strong distrust and hatred of the Weimar Republic, in remedy of Hitler's rise to power. The hyperinflation dramatically spun the economy out of control. Example. The cessation in 1923 of the Ruhr, followed by the policy of passive resistance had detrimental results for Germany's economic status of which had already been failing. Costs had escalated approximately 700% within the year by the summer of 1923. Money virtually lost all its value as the
This introduced the onslaught of hyperinflation 1923 and the disastrous crisis of the Great Depression 1929. The Weimar Republic suffered political disorder, violence and economic hardship. One in particular, the signing of The Treaty of Versailles, specifically the guilt clause 231, a dictated treaty "diktat" forced upon them, given responsibility for the destructions and deaths caused during the First World War. The Treaty demanded a loss of 15% of land, 12% of people, 10% of industry and a total reparations bill set of US$32 billion dollars. This in turn created immense hatred toward the government, referred these Political signatories of the Armistice as "November Criminals" of which was believed to be unpatriotic. Karl Ludecke, an early follower of Hitler in 1924 expresses "Of course, I was ripe for this experience. I was a man of 32, weary with disgust and disillusionment, a wanderer …show more content…
Powerful opponents such as industrialists, the Prussian Land Aristocracy and the army who favoured all aspects of the Nazi Party created difficulties for the government to gain substantial results. This marked the rising of Hitler's National Socialist German Worker's Party, The Nazi Party (NSDAP).
The economic disaster of 1923 is an eminent factor in addition to German society's strong distrust and hatred of the Weimar Republic, in remedy of Hitler's rise to power. The hyperinflation dramatically spun the economy out of control. Example. The cessation in 1923 of the Ruhr, followed by the policy of passive resistance had detrimental results for Germany's economic status of which had already been failing. Costs had escalated approximately 700% within the year by the summer of 1923. Money virtually lost all its value as the