In the late 1920’s, the Nazi party had little success but in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis came to power. Hitler was the leader of a small right-wing party with very extremist ideas. Within a couple of years this party was in control of Germany. The factors that caused Hitler’s success for the rise of Nazism has been studied ever since. Hitler’s organisation skills and personal traits helped to bring the Naizs into power. However, without the socio-economic problems that Germany encountered and the weakness of their political situation, Hitler would not have had the opportunity to come into power and destory democracy in 1933.
In 1918, a republic was announced with the socialist Frederich Ebert as chancellor. Ebert wanted to sign the armistice
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Adolf Hitler joined the party as a spy for the German Government. Hitler was fascinated with the politics of the party and soon became a member. In 1920, the party changed its name to Nazis (www.schoolshistory.org, 25-11-15). Hitler became the leader of the party in 1921 and adopted the swastika emblem. Hitler saw the opportunity and tried to seize power when the French invaded in 1923 (www.schoolshistory.org, 25-11-15). He planned to first take down the Bavarian government and march on Berlin. He was supported by a right wing politician Luendoff, and declared himself President of Germany. Hitler could not get enough support and his attempted coup was easily put down. This revolt was called the Munich Beer Hall Putsch. At Hitler’s trial, he made long public speeches which were widely and sympathetically supported as he condemned the Treaty of Versailles which many people agreed with. Hitler’s time in prison gave him time to write “Mein Kampf”. Hitler learnt from this revolt that a violent revolution would not succeed but public speeches and propaganda might (Tonge, 2009 …show more content…
As Chancellor he took the crucial step of ceasing financial support to end the hyperinflation. He introduced a new and stable currency (the Rentenmark). He lasted as chancellor for 100 days but after that he remained as foreign minister. Over the next six years, as foreign minister he sought to improve Germany’s international position. In 1924, the Dawes Plan was set up by Charles Dawes to regotiate the reperations (Carr, 1996 p.278). For the next five years, American loans were put into Germany. The Weimar Republic boomed. In 1929, the Young Plan reduced the reperations even more and extended payments (Tonge, 2009 p.54). Germany, therefore was largely financed by the US. This meant that if something happened to the US economy it also affected the German economy. A business crisis occurred on the New York Stock Exchange which was known as the Wall Street Crash. “Over the course of one week, $30 billion was wiped off the value of shares” (Tonge, 2009 p.54). Economies all over the world crashed. Depression was world wide. It had massive effects on Germany due to reliance on American loans. This gave Hitler an opportunity to come into
[Doc 1]. This responsibility forced Germany into massive debt, as they had to pay large sums of money while their economy was still in ruins from the war. This plight initially led to the weakened economy described
As the Nazis came to power in the late 1930’s, Hitler wanted to engage all of the generations, as well as future generations, in his plan to create a racially pure and dominant society. Hitler’s goal not only applied to Central Europe but also to the domination of the entire world. One of the first groups to form, the Hitler Youth, came to light in 1922. Later sub groups formed and from 1933-1945 those were the leading organizations to shape the youth of Germany into Hitler’s molds of “perfect” Aryan children. As the Nazi Party gained strength and power, Hitler garnered his support in the youth by creating outside-school youth groups and later requiring the participation in youth organizations, in an effort to recruit more followers to ultimately
Therefore this meant that the banks of Germany had to give America their money back; taking the German peoples savings, and leaving them financially ruined as they had to collect all of their money from their debtors. This led Germany to a financial crisis. Furthermore, this source has also highlighted other points that have helped Hitler to rise to power, such as, “hyperinflation”1, “propaganda”1, “Hitler was a gifted speaker”1, and, “the Treaty of Versailles”1. Arguably, the Treaty of Versailles, was one of the main points that Charles Hawley made, as it stated that Germany had to pay “132 billion goldmarks”1 in reparations, for the war. This led Stresemann to construct the “Dawes Plan”1 in 1924, which we know was how the Great Depression spread to Germany.
The boss need to give his or her workers salaries twice a day and they will spend it right after they got the money. Germany must find a solution to stop all of these insane things. A new chancellor, Gustav Stresemann ordered the workers go back to work. He replaced the old mark with the new currency called Rentenmark. In 1924, America started the Daws Plan, which means they are helping Germany on their repression.
The Great Depression was triggered by a collapse in U.S share prices in 1929, after a decade-long economic prosperity. Even though this event’s main cause was in the U.S, the effects were felt all over the world. In Germany, the depression caused a great number of businesses to close, mass unemployment and caused public dissatisfaction towards the Weimar Republic, which then led to a dramatic increase in popularity for the extreme left and right wing parties. However, even though the Great Depression was a significant event on German history, this event is still one of many.
Adolf Hitler rose to power by taking advantage of the World Wars, and the Great Depression. On Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed. The Germans were in a war debt of $33,000,000,000. It says in the article The Aftermath of WW1 Leading to the Great Depression, that they printed an abundance of money, but this led to severe inflation. According to the text of the article, The Rise of Adolf Hitler, “German workers were laid off.
Together, with a total amount of 3,000 people, rushed into a public meeting and Hitler announced that there is a beginning to a new government. Shortly after this occurred, Hitler was arrested and put away for three years. During this time, he wrote a novel called Mein Kampf(My Struggle) which outlined his
Everyone in Germany was suffering apart from the Nazis. Everyone, from Businessmen to factory workers and farmers were hoping that the government, Weimar Republic would help them. Six million German people
Germany has made major economic advancement in their recovery efforts since World War II. With the surrender of the Nazis, allied forces occupied Germany, from 1945-1949, maintaining all policies that were emplaced by the Nazi Party, which resulted in an economic disaster. “There were price controls, rent controls, wage controls, and extensive general regulation of the economy. The net result was an economic disaster and the creation of near-famine conditions.” (Watkins) Even after the allied forces released its grasp and allowed Germany to retract the controls it caused major inflation previously suppressed by the controls.
And because of this, the prices for food became too high. Most people that were unemployed and were now, homeless, could not pay this amount so they starved. When Stresemann took control, the Hyperinflation was a major crisis in Germany. Stresemann had a solution for this. He thought of creating a new currency called the Rentenmark to replace the other currency.
Some Jews were leaders of the communist groups, which encouraged his disgust for Jews and Communists. After the war, Hitler was asked to join a military intelligence unit, where he kept tabs on the German Worker’s Party. Hitler built up the party, changing
During the early stages of the 1900s Germany was known to be a dreadful monarchy ruled by the National Socialist Workers Party also known as the Nazi Party under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945. Founded in 1919 as the German Workers’ Party, the group promoted German pride and anti-Semitism, and expressed dissatisfaction with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the 1919 peace settlement that ended World War I. Through the 1920s, Hitler gave speech after speech in which he stated that unemployment, rampant inflation, hunger and economic stagnation in postwar Germany would continue until there was a total revolution in German life. Most problems could be solved, he explained, if communists and Jews were driven from the nation. His fiery speeches swelled the ranks of the Nazi Party, especially among young, economically disadvantaged Germans.
The National Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington, D.C., or District of Columbia, is located between Virginia and Maryland on the north bank of the Potomac River. It’s the home of the three branches of government as well with the White House, Supreme Court, and the Capital Building. For the layout of Washington D.C., George Washington himself made the city in a diamond shape. The city spans 68 square miles with a population of 601,723 (History.com). It also has many memorials that today we still visit.
The group gave him the official tile of Fuhrer, or leader, when the party was renamed the Nazi party or the National Socialist German Workers’ party in 1921. Hitler was not unlike Mussolini in his coming to power, as he saw the conditions in post-war Germany and used them to his advantage. In the negotiations after World War I, Germany lost land and weapons, was made to pay reparations for the destruction caused by the war, and the economic situation in Germany was less than appealing, to put it nicely. He understood the frustration of the country and used its damaged ego as a blank canvas for his fascist and extremist propaganda. He dissolved parliament and took complete
With the dissolution of the German Monarchy came the need for a new type of government. This led to the establishment of the Weimar Republic, and those who had helped to put this government into power rebelled with no success. Germany was suffering from debt after World War I, and the people no longer knew if they could give their support to the Weimar Republic. With the country experiencing intense inflation the German currency basically collapsed along with the republic. This led to the rise of a new age of absolute monarchy, although it was not called that.