Zusammenfassung der Ressource
WHY DID HITLER COME TO POWER?
LIMP PAPER
- 1.LONG TERM BITTERNESS
- People were angry about 1st world
war
- Bitter about Treaty of Versailles
- Due Germans bitter feelings
Hitlers viscious & expansionism
appealed
- Gained support
- 2. INEFFECTIVE CONSTITUTION
- Weakness in the constitution crippled the
government
- Alot of people even wanted to go back to ditatorship
- nobody was prepared to stop or fight Hitler
- 3. MONEY
- Hitler had financial support from
wealthy businessmen
- Had money for his propaganda
and election campaigns
- 4.PROPAGANDA
- Persuaded the German masses to
believe Jews were to blame
- Persuaded Germans Hitler was their last hope
- 5. PROGRAMME
- Hitler promised
everybody
something so
they supported
him
- 6. ATTACKS ON OTHER PARTIES
- Stormtroopers attacked
Jews & people who
opposed Hitler
- Many opponents kept
quiet because they were
scared of being
murdered
- 7.PERSONAL QUALITIES
- Hitler was a brilliant speaker
- His eyes had a
peculiar power
over people
- Hitler was a good organiser &
politician
- He was driven
but unstable
- He believed he had
been called by God
to become dictator
of Germany & rule the world
- He self belief
persuaded people to
believe in him
- 8. ECONOMIC DEPRESSION
- wall Street crash in
1929 US called in its
loans to Germany
- German economy
crashed
- high
unemployment
- people starving
- Germans wanted
someone to blame
- Hitler offered both & Nazis success
grew
- 9.RECRUITED BY HINDENBURG
- In 1932 elections
Nazis failed again
to get majority
- Franz VON PAPEN
was chancellor but
need support
- Hidenburg & Von Papen
needed support
- Offered Hitler VICE
Chancellor if he agreed
to support them
- Hitler refused Vice
Chancellor & demanded
he be made Chancellor
- Hindenburg gambled
& agreed as he thought
he could control Hitler!!
- Hitler did not have to
take power he was
given it!!