How Did Hitler Gain Power In Germany

In the 1920s, the Nazi Party was small and appeared insignificant. Most of the people did not believe that the party had the potential to gain power. In 1928, the party only won 12 seats out of the total 400 in the Reichstag. However, by 1933, the Nazi Party had already managed to become the biggest party in Germany, and its leader, Adolf Hitler, became the country’s chancellor. The Nazi government eliminated all opposition and consolidated power, making Germany a dictatorship country. Hitler’s government was involved in some atrocious acts such as the Holocaust that led to the gruesome murder of over 6 million Jews. Despite the harmful acts perpetrated by Hitler and his government, he still had support from a significantly large number of ordinary German citizens and maintained his power until the end of the Second World War. The

This essay seeks to analyze how Adolf Hitler’s ideas conquered the hearts of ordinary Germans and remained in power until after the Second World War.

While Hitler managed to reorganize the Nazi Party in German after his release from prison in 1924, the party was not able to attract people’s attention and did not do well in the 1928 general elections. However, after the Great Depression, the German people were attracted to Hitler’s ideas. He had set out most of his ideas in the autobiographic book he wrote while in prison, which was called ‘Mein Kampf.’ Hitler believed that the weak leadership displayed by the current government was the cause of the problems that the country was facing (Klemperer,.61-62). He was against the great democracy in the country and vowed that