How Did Hitler Come To Power

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How Did Hitler Come To Power
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Hitlers Rise To Power

• Based on Many Factors
• Resentment of the German People
• Weakness of the Weimar Republic
• Terror of the Stormtroopers
• Brilliant Speeches

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Why Did Hitler Come To Power

• Long Term Bitterness
• Anger about WWI and Treaty of Versailles
• Ineffective Constitution
• Many people wanted a return to a dictatorship

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Why Did Hitler Come To Power?

• Money
• Many wealthy businessmen gave Hitler money to run
  his propaganda and election campaigns
• Henry Ford- Ford Motors
• He had a picture of Ford in his office
• Union Banking Corporation
• George Bushs great-grandfather was president of
  the Corporation

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Why Did Hitler Come To Power

• WA Harriman and Co.
• American shipping and railway company
• George Bushs grandfather was Vice-President
• Irenee du Pont
• Head of General Motors
• Advocated the creation of a super-race by spinal
  injections to enhance children of pure blood

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Why Did Hitler Come To Power?

• Propaganda
• Persuaded German masses to believe that the Jews
  were to blame and that Hitler was their last hope
• Programme
• He promised everybody something so they supported
  him

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Why Did Hitler Come To Power?

• Attacks on Other Parties
• Stormtroopers attacked Jews and people who
  opposed Hitler
• People kept quiet because they were scared of
  being murdered
• Personal Qualities
• Brilliant speaker
• Good organizer

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Why Did Hitler Come To Power?

• Personal Qualities
• Driven
• Economic Depression
• U.S. calls in its loans and German economy
  collapses
• People wanted someone to blame and Hitler
  provided that for them

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Why Did Hitler Come To Power?

• Recruited by Hindenburg
• Offers Hitler post of vice-chancellor
• Hitler refuses
• Thought they could control Hitler and made him
  Chancellor- they were wrong
• Hitler did not TAKE power- he was given it.

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Beliefs of the Nazi Party

• German Workers Party started by Anton Drexler
• Hitler joins and soon becomes leader
• Developed a 25 point programme
• Were nationalists (believe in Germanys
  greatness)
• Were socialist (believed the state should benefit
  everyone equally)