... appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg. The main body of this investigation outlines the factors that made Hitler Hindenburg's choice for chancellor, describing how the democratic Republic disappeared and how the Nazi Party gained support and was increasingly popular. The external factors that made the Republic weak as well as Hitler characteristics as a leader are ... carrying to a great potential of internal disagreement. For example the Great Coalition was brought down by the disagreement between the Social Democratic Party and the Centre over proposal...

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... deserve such severe punishment. For a nation of such strong pride and self-regard, the treaty resulted in tormented years of blame. The main parties affected being the Weimar Republic and the Socialist Politicians whom signed the dishonorable treaty. The Weimar government, established in 1919, was in difficulty from ... this worrying expression of faulty politics. Finally, to the advantage of the Nazi Party, during the Great Depression extremism was on a rise. Extremist parties who claimed they could solve the problems were rife. The Nazi's being one of the more dominant, blamed the We...

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... War 1 was therefore a traumatic shock to most Germans, especially to the German soldiers, and almost no one in western Europe understood it then. This resulted in a very weak post-war democratic regime in Germany. In addition to that, Germany was divided between "western" and "eastern" political and social orientations. Today, when Germany is a modern liberal "western" country it's hard to figure ... total power. He was now 'Der Fuhrer', The Leader. The opposition leaders were murdered, or fled. In June all other parties and their organizations were dismantled, and finally in July Hitle...

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... Republic after the Wall Street Crash. This was on top of the significant minority of society who had never believed in it or its principles, with over 20% voting against democratic parties upon the Republic's inception in 1919. Added to this is Hitler as an individual. His charisma and cunning cannot be overlooked, which manifested themselves in increased support and several successful ... 's had won 37.4% of the vote to become the largest party in the Reichstag. This shows that more people supported the Nazis anti-Weimar regime than any of the centrist parties and the widespread support...

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... did not seize power, nor did he win it. Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of a constitutional republic, theoretically subject to democratic checks and balances. Hitler's path to power was all very official, and absolutely within the legalities of the democratic Constitution. So which steps were taken after this legal action to create an authoritative dictator? Leading up to Hitler's appointment at ... , political opponents were either imprisoned or fled the country; the Reichstag then surrendered its powers, giving Hitler control of the legislature. Soon thereafter the trade unions were ...

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After World War I, the emperor and military commander of Germany relinquished their political power, leading to its ultimate transfer to the hands of the German Social Democratic Party. This was a large groups of "moderate" Marxists that pushed for socialist reforms but not the great changes of property and wealth management that the Bolsheviks of Russia ... offset, the detriment was still quite prominent. Because there were people voting for each and every party, there was no true majority party in the Reichstag at the time. The parties often argued and were very slow and inefficient in pas...

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... European powers. This eased the collective minds of German politicians and along with economic prosperity contributed to a paradigm of political stability. Between the years 1924-1927 the moderate political parties including the German Democratic Party (DDP), the Centre Party and the German People's Party (DVP) formed the basis of coalition governments of the republic. The political violence that marred the initial stages ... of Weimar politics was absent and parties of the extreme right and left were subdued, the communists and the Nazi party only gaining a small minority of votes. The...

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... with feelings of betrayal towards those who did not fight in the war. The army felt they had been undefeated on the battlefield but they had been betrayed by Germany's democratic leaders, known as the "November Criminals." (Spielvogel 28) This blaming of those on the home front, called the stab in the back theory, gave Nazis an opportunity to promote Nationalism ... toward parliamentary democracy. Mayer was told " National Socialism was a revulsion by my friends against parliamentary politics, parliamentary debate, parliamentary government-against all the higgling and haggling of the pa...

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The German people throughout 1923-1934 had experienced a complete disillusionment and loss of faith in their democratic Weimar Government, which ultimately lead to them believing in a system that was promising to restore Germany to the strong and proud country that it was before the devastating effects of ... was to speak against them. Hitler won the election in March, leading to the Enabling Law, which essentially allowed Hitler to create laws without consent of the Reichstag. No new parties were allowed to be formed as of July 1933, and Hitler had now turned Germany into a complete dictato...

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... . From this point, the ascension of the Nazi party as the only party ruling in Germany got easier as Hitler banned the Social Democratic Party of Germany in June 1933, before banning completely all the other political parties other than Nazis in July 14 1933. The new dictator then abolished the Landers which were the local councils and replaced them by Gauleiters ... ...

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