Why was Hitler able to come to power?
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Why was Hitler able to come to power?
1. Background suited it: The Great Depression
• Overinvestment • Overconfidence in the
economy• Speculators
• Lower orders • Recalled loans
and decline in investments
• Unemployment• Strikes and
demonstrations
Great Depression and world effects
Domino Effect
2. Hitler’s charisma
To ex-soldiers…pride
3. The content of his promises
To entrepreneurs … opportunities
To youths…sense of identity (SA/ Sturmabteilung)
To the workers…jobs
To some Germans…a scapegoat
The
Jew
The use of propaganda
Joseph Goebbels
Immediate Issues: Mistake of President Von Hindenburg
.. And Franz von Papen
..Keeping Hitler in check
How did Hitler Conslidate power?
• Reichstag Fire
The enabling act
The Enabling Act – the SS and the SA
Will the audience kindly remain in their seats….