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    Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany between 1919 and 1934 by exploiting the economic and political instability following World War 1 and the Treaty of Versailles. He joined the German Workers Party in 1919 and transformed it into the Nazi party, promoting extreme nationalist and racist ideology. Hitler attempted to seize power through force in 1923 but was imprisoned. After his release he gained popular support and was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933, after which he consolidated power and established a fascist dictatorship.

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    Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany between 1919 and 1934 by exploiting the economic and political instability following World War 1 and the Treaty of Versailles. He joined the German Workers Party in 1919 and transformed it into the Nazi party, promoting extreme nationalist and racist ideology. Hitler attempted to seize power through force in 1923 but was imprisoned. After his release he gained popular support and was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933, after which he consolidated power and established a fascist dictatorship.

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    Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany between 1919 and 1934 by exploiting the economic and political instability following World War 1 and the Treaty of Versailles. He joined the German Workers Party in 1919 and transformed it into the Nazi party, promoting extreme nationalist and racist ideology. Hitler attempted to seize power through force in 1923 but was imprisoned. After his release he gained popular support and was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933, after which he consolidated power and established a fascist dictatorship.

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    Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany between 1919 and 1934 by exploiting the economic and political instability following World War 1 and the Treaty of Versailles. He joined the German Workers Party in 1919 and transformed it into the Nazi party, promoting extreme nationalist and racist ideology. Hitler attempted to seize power through force in 1923 but was imprisoned. After his release he gained popular support and was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933, after which he consolidated power and established a fascist dictatorship.

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    P. 1, History 12

    The Rise of Adolf Hitler 1919 – 1934

    Adolf Hitler had a remarkably huge impact on our world, and it was not a positive

    one. In following his extreme political, racial and religious views, he slaughtered millions

    of innocent people and led a kind of massacre that had never been seen before. Asking

    oneself the question of how a man like Hitler got into power in the first place is a

    question that needs answering to prevent history from repeating itself.

    Hitler’s extremist views took their shape during the First World War, joining up

    with a Bavarian unit at age 25. Corporal Hitler worked as a dispatch runner, transporting

    messaged from the command centers to the units on the front line. Upon his return from

    the ‘war to end all wars’, Hitler joined a party called the German Workers Party, a group

    made up of 89 other members; within that same year, 1919, Germany becomes the

    Weimar Republic, the liberal, democratic parliamentary republic that replaced the former

    imperial style of government. Within the short span of two years, Hitler climbed through

    the ranks of the German Workers Party to his position leading it. With his coming to

    power there, it became the Nazi party, and his extremist ideals were matched in many of

    the other party members.

    Like Mussolini, the Treaty of Versailles paved Hitler’s path to power. Germany

    had suffered greatly from the stipulations of the treaty, and the excessive printing of the

    German currency caused the money’s value to drop. Hitler also had a private militia

    called the Sturm Abteilung, known as the “Storm Troopers” or “Brown Shirts”. In 1923,

    Hitler tried to seize power through forceful means in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, but he
    failed. He was charged and sent to prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf, or “My

    Struggle”

    In 1928, the Nazi party ran in the German election, and won 230 seats in

    Parliament, and in 1933 Hitler became chancellor. When Hitler requested the president

    for the dissolving of the Reichstag, the Parliament building burned, and the communists

    were blamed for the act. This gave Hitler the upper hand in the next election, crushing the

    communist parties and giving Hitler the majority vote. The enabling act was passed when

    Hitler gained the support of the Center Party, giving him a majority government and

    allowing acts to be committed outside the limits of the constitution. Hitler was, by

    definition, a dictator of a major military force.

    Shortly thereafter, Hitler passed a plebiscite that combined the position of the

    president and the chancellor, making him the Supreme Commander of Germany. He had

    promised to pull the country out of the depression and create new jobs, in a similar way

    to Mussolini. Hitler stockpiled armaments and enlisted more and more soldiers; Britain

    and France’s use of appeasement on Nazi Germany gave its army the opportunity to

    expand into a nigh unstoppable force with enough firepower for world-domination –

    which was exactly what Hitler wanted.

    Hitler’s rise to power was aided by the state of the economy and the chaos

    enveloping his country. He drew opportunity from the Treaty of Versailles and the terror

    of the threat of communism that held his nation in an iron fist. He had an angle for every

    person: the economic depression gave him leverage with his promises of work and

    money to those in need, and a promise to those who had what they needed that

    communism would not take their possessions away. He worked for the best for both the
    poor and the well-off, and succeeded in giving it to them; unfortunately, his main agenda

    was world-domination and the extermination of the Jewish people. Without his extreme

    values, he could have been remembered as Germany’s savior, but instead he is

    remembered as one of the most hated individuals of the 20th century.

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