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Hitler Rise To Power Essay, Research Paper

Adolf Hitler s Rise to Power

Adolf Hitler was a very influential man whom through many adversaries came to power in Germany, by manipulating the people of that time. Hitler a very persuasive orator, raised the ranks of the government quickly, and even after losing the 1932 election in Germany to Hindenburg, Hitler was made chancellor in 1933, which also brought total control to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party or Nazi s. Hitler did not become chancellor because he was a great speaker, but he manipulated the people in Germany, by blaming the depression on Jews, and that an Arian race would end all social ills. Since the Germans were stuck in such a deep depression, they believe in Hitler and his cause, hoping it would get them out of the depression. This paper plans to explain, in detail, how Hitler abused the powers of his time to come to power by convincing the Germans that his views would end all social problems and it will show how Hitler used propaganda to influence the people s opinions in Germany. This paper will also show that if Germany was not in the position that it was during the late 1920s and early 1930s, Hitler would have never came to power and World War II would have been avoided.

Hitler was born in Braunau, Upper Austria, in 1889, the fourth child of Klara and Alois Hitler. Hitler s father worked his way up in the Austrian customs service to a position of considerable status, and as a result Hitler had a comfortable childhood. Hitler began school in 1900, and his grades were above average. It was decided that he would attend Realschule, a secondary school that prepared students for further study and emphasized modern languages and technical subjects. After having conflicting views with his father over the future, Hitler ended up failing out of Realschule. After school Hitler began to form his political views: a strong sense of German nationalism, the beginnings of anti-Semitism, and a distaste for the ruling family and political structure of Austria-Hungary. Like many German-speaking citizens of Austria-Hungary, Hitler considered himself first and foremost a German.

To understand the how s and why s Hitler came to power, one must understand what events took place leading up to Hitler coming into power. After Germany s defeat in World War I the German government was left disheveled and had to deal with the payment of extraordinary reparations given by the French and British governments. When the Germans could not afford to pay their debts, the French and Belgians seized control of the coal mines in the Ruhr industrial area in west central Germany. In January 1923, this move aggravated the Germans very much, so the government told all of the coal miners to walk out and strike. In order to get and keep the miners striking the government had to pay the strikers the money they would be making while working. In order for the German government to obtain the money needed the government had to print an immense amount of money, with enviably caused major inflation. As the inflation rose, the German currency rapidly lost value, which caused the people s life savings to be worth nothing, and the prices of food and necessities rose at an astronomical rate.

At this point the German government threw out their plans of passive resistance, and attempted to work things out. When Hitler realized what was going on he organized himself and 600 Nazi supporters to try and take over the Germany government. The vigilant group marched on a Munich beer hall where Gustav von Kahr, head of the provincial Bavarian government, was addressing a public meeting, and forced von Kahr to give the Nazis full control over the German government. After von Kahr was released, he quickly retracted his statements, outlawed the Nazi party, and ordered for the Bavarian police to crush Hitler s revolution. As Hitler marched to the center of Munich, he was caught and arrested by the state police, put before a jury and found him guilty of treason and sent to spend five years in jail, but he only serve one year of the five. Even though the revolution failed, it proved useful to Hitler; he received a great deal of publicity and learned an important lesson about the way to destroy democracy. It was not to be destroyed by outside force, but by working within its system to build up popular support, always avoiding a confrontation with its police and military power. (Flood p 466)

While in jail Hitler published his first book in 1925, Meim Kampf, which meant My Struggle. This book, the first of two, outlined Hitler s goals for how Germany should be governed. It included the making of one superior race, the Arian race, and the way Hitler wanted to achieve this perfect race was by eliminating all the other races. The book also contained Hitler s plans on Lebensraum, or living space. Hitler wanted to gain more land so that the Germans could have room to expand, and room to have huge families. Hitler explained that acquiring these lands would involve wars, but not for political or economical goals. Hitler felt the Germans need to expand their territory inorder to have more room to procreate, he felt that if many lives were lost in the wars to acquire the territory, it would be ok, because the population would be able to grow quickly in a short amount of time, due to the increased amount of room for large families to succeed.

Shortly after Hitler s release from jail in December of 1924, Hitler regained control of the Nazi party. In the years from 1925 to 1930, Hitler built up a network of local party organizations over most of Germany, and reorganized the SA. At the same time he organized the black-shirted Schutzstaffel (defense corps), or SS, to protect him, supervise and control the party, and perform police tasks. When Hitler came to power in the Nazi party, he started very quickly in raising the popularity

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