Hitlers rise to Power

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Hitlers rise to Power

• Nazi election results.

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A Party going nowhere?

• In elections held in 1928 the Nazis won 12 seats
  in the Reichstag.
• Despite their efficient organisation and
  campaigning only 2.7 of voters voted for them.

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The Wall Street Crash

• Following the Wall Street Crash in 1929
  unemployment began to rise in Germany.
• More and more people began to vote Nazi.
• In the 1930 elections the Nazis gained 107 seats
  in the Reichstag.

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July 1932

• Unemployment hit the 6 million mark, 17 million
  were dependent on the dole.
• In the July elections the Nazis polled 37 of the
  vote making them the largest single party in the
  Reichstag with 230 seats.
• Hitler demanded the Chancellorship but Hindenburg
  refused saying the Nazis were too violent. He
  appointed Von Papen instead.

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November 1932

• Von Papen was unpopular.
• He could not gain the support of the Reichstag.
• Further elections were held in November.
• The Nazi vote like unemployment had peaked and
  had begun to fall to 196 seats.
• Hitler was in despair.
• Hindenburg still refused to make him chancellor
  and appointed Von Schleicher instead.

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Weve hired him

• Von Schleicher was no more popular than Von
  Papen.
• Industrialists wrote to Hindenburg urging him to
  appoint Hitler who was popular with the German
  people.
• The army warned there could be a civil war
  between the communists and the Nazis.
• Von Papen persuaded Hindenburg that Hitler could
  be tamed.
• Reluctantly Hindenburg appointed Hitler on the
  30th January 1933.