Hitler's Becoming a Dictator

Hitler's Becoming a Dictator

There are many factors that allowed Hitler to seize power in 1934. One

reason was the Munich Putsch, which put Hitler in jail and allowed him

to write “Mein Kampf” and the 25-point programme, which helped him to

win votes. Another reason was the Wall Street crash, which caused

another depression in Germany, which made people vote for the Nazi

party. Another reason Hitler was able to come into power was the

Reichstag fire, which the Nazis blamed on a communist and this

affected the 1933 Election in their favour. The fire also allowed

Hitler to pass the “Enabling act”, which basically meant that no one

could oppose him and Germany had to do what he said without question.

To aid this un-challenged state, Hitler killed a lot of members of the

SA, who up until then had been a branch of the Nazi party. But they

had socialist views, which were getting in the way of Hitler having

ultimate power as a dictator. Finally President Hindenburg died and

this allowed Hitler to seize total control of Germany.

The Munich Putsch in 1923 was a failure for the Nazi party in the

short term, but in the long run it helped Hitler to become dictator of

Germany. The Munich Putsch involved Hitler and some other Nazis

marching in protest to try and start a revolution against the

government who weren’t solving Germany’s depression. The Putsch failed

for a number of reasons. The first reason was that the army and the

police didn’t join in the march as Hitler expected they would. This

meant that they stood against the marching Nazis. Hitler also

miscalculated the mood of the German people who weren’t ready for an

uprising.

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...nt Hindenburg or the

army wanted this as the SA’s socialist views were completely against

Hitler ruling Germany in a dictatorship. By using the SS to kill

members of the SA, Hitler appeased Hindenburg and the army and sent a

message to others who may have thought of challenging him.

Then President Hindenburg died of old age. This allowed Hitler to take

over as Supreme leader (the Führer) of Germany. On the 2nd of August

1934 the entire army swore an oath of personal loyalty to Hitler and

he began his dictatorship.

In my opinion the Wall Street crash was the most important reason for

Hitler coming into power. This is because if this hadn’t happened,

Germany would still have been able to recover economically and there

would have been no depression and therefore no need for extreme

politics to solve the situation.