How did Germany come under Nazi rule?

Answer 1

In 1918 German wanted peace from the "Great war" so an armistace was declaired on 11th November. In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles was signed by all major powers, including Germany. But this was by no means fair, it reduced the standing army of the Germans to 100,000, destoryed the Air force and depleated the Naval forces to 15,000 men with no submarines, 6 battleships, 6 cruisers and 12 destroyers. Germany lost its colonial empire, and alot of land from the pre 1914 boarders. This was felt by some to be very harsh. And Germany was "stabed in the back". So the government set up called the "Weimar republic" was weak, from infilration from comunists, fasists, and other radicals due to their voting methods, If a party got 15% of the vote they got 15% of the seats. By 1929 Germany was on the brink of civil war. Hitler tried to copy the Italians by having a "march on berlin" from Munich. This failed and Hitler was arrested. But in 1933 Hitler and the Nazi party was the majority party in the Weimar. They passed laws that banned other political parties so Germany finally collapsed from a republic to a Nazi dictorial rule.

Answer 2

At the end of the First World War the German military Dictatorship and the monarchy were overthrown, and the new Weimar Republic government signed a humiliating armistice with the allied powers. The militaristic and right-wing elements in Germany soon started claiming they had not really lost the war, but they had been "stabbed in the back" by the leftists/centrists/Jews/politicians etc. As Germany was made to accept the blame for the war, lost territory and had to pay huge war reparations to the allies this meant that parties (such as the Nazis) that were hostile to the Armistice terms and promised to restore Germany gained electoral support.

In 1932 the Nazis became the largest party in the German parliament, but still did not have a majority, in January 1933 Hitler was appointed Chancellor (head of government) in the hope that he could be controlled, but he started acquiring more power than his non-Nazi supporters expected.

Because the parliament still had no clear majority Hitler asked President Hindenburg for new elections for March 1933. In February there was a convenient fire that destroyed the Reichstag (Parliament) - the Nazis blamed the communists, although it is widely believed that the fire was started by the Nazis to discredit the Communists who were arrested in large numbers. The Communists were still allowed to run in the March election (winning 81 seats) although the party was banned the next day meaning 81 votes disappeared from the parliament, giving the Nazis and their allies a majority.

Once the Nazis had gained political control they were quick to ensure they kept it; laws were passed to remove civil liberties and to allow the Nazi-led government to make laws without the parliament - and once they had total control they became a legal dictatorship.

Answer 3

they won a democratic election

The National Socialist (NAZI) Party was elected in both 1932 German elections.

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Not so. That's one of those myths. In July 1932 the Nazis won 37% of the popular vote and in November 1932 they won 34%. Germany was in the throes of a serious political crisis, and in January 1933 President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a coalition of Nazis and German Nationalists (DNVP). The next elections, in March 1933, weren't genuinely democratic, but even so the Nazis were dependent on their DNVP coalition partners for a majority.

Answer 4

List of reason the nazis came to power:

Nazi strengths

• Hitler was a gifted speaker-he made long speaches in court in front of the medis circus after being arrested for the munich putsch...gaining lots of publicity
• Effective Propaganda campaings organised by joseph goebbels
• Violent treatment of opposition won support-example.. shared hatred of communism with the public.
• Critisizing wiemar government
• Attractive nazi policies and promises eg. Getting rid of the treaty of versailles.
• They had support of big buissinesses.

Opposition's weaknesses

• The weimar government's failure to deal with depression and other problems
• Failure of opposition to compromise
• German people hated wiemar government.
• Scheming of hindenburg and von papen

Other

• Wall street crash and the great deppression leading to unemployment-hitler promises to sort it out and he does
• Memories of the bad years around 1923
• Treaty of versailles

Answer 5

Propaganda and violence mostly.