Sunday, February 19, 2012

Hitlers rise to power!































Well i think that when Hindenburg of the weimar republic passed away the Nazi and Adolf hitler was happy since that one enemy was down. During hyperinflation Germany was really upset and was depressed of everything that happened, from the Treaty of Versailles to Germany's Hyperinflation. Of course to Hitler he saw this as a perfect opportunity to gain power. Hitler promised to get rid of the Treaty. After that, Hyperinflation occurred many were poor and some lost jobs and business crashed, etc, In the crisis, people wanted someone to blame, and looked to extreme solutions. Hitler offered them both, and Nazi success in the elections grew. Germans turned to Nazism because they were desperate. The number of Nazi seats in the Reichstag rose from 12 in 1928 to 230 in July 1932. This depression was like a gift because for every problem the Nazi Party had come up with an explanation or promise. These included, promise to get rid of the hated Weimar government and replace it with a strong leader-Hitler, a promise to get people back to work on road building and public works, and a promise to deal with a communist take-over. The people agreed an was happy to Hitlers idea. In November 1932, Hitler, in the Reichstag elections, the Nazi Party won 37.3% of the votes (230 seats) proving the Nazi party to be the most popular party. Hindenburg and Papen came up with a plan to get the Nazis on their side by offering to make Hitler vice chancellor. He refused and demanded to be made chancellor. They agreed, thinking they could control him. Later, President Hindenburg however, despised Hitler and appointed Franz Von Papen as his chancellor.
General Von Schleicher stopped supporting Von Papen and decided he himself should become chancellor. This triggered off a power struggle between Von Schleicher and Von Papen, which ended up with them handing power to Hitler. In the end Hitler became chancellor and that is how he gained power.









1 comment:

  1. I liked your ideas, they were good. You organized things in chronological order, just that I think maybe the first sentence would fit better somewhere at the end, because the paragraph starts off with the death of President Hindenburg and it ends with Hitler being chancellor, which happened before the death of the President. You might as well want to include an introductory sentence, but then otherwise it was good. You explained and supported your ideas well.

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