Unquestionably, the Great Depression gave the small moustached dictator the opportunity to the rise of Germany. The Great Depression caused individuals to experience deep poverty and misery. This led to a desperate plead …show more content…
If only a German leader had been smart enough to spend a lot of government money, the rise of power of Hitler could have been avoided. Bruning “The Hunger Chancellor” was confronted by the economic crisis. Bruning responded by cutting governmental expenditure; wages and salaries. Nevertheless, these policies increased unemployment making him highly unpopular, this lead to Bruning losing support in Reichstag. “He weakened it by bending the rules” (Swinton, Page 27,1904). Effortlessly Hitler gained all the votes to in the National State Election during 1928. Bruning decreased unemployed people’s allowance by “an enormous 60 percent” (Swinton, Page 27, 1904). This caused extreme economic distress among the people of Germany, unemployment was increasing to 6 million, 40 percent of male industrial workers were unemployed and middle class lost their jobs. Food was unaffordable and exceedingly expensive. In the following September 1930, Bruning lost in the General Election to the Nazi who won 6.5 million votes this gave them 107 seats. Hitler promises; “higher prices for farm products” (Swinton, Page 28, 1904). Nazi employment opportunities for the unemployed, small businessmen promised protection from large competitors, Nazi programs against the communist. “Hitler realised that the Nazis would win many votes if he could offer help to the people” (Swinton, 1904). In 1930, Hitler had 6,000,000 followers