When and how did the Nazi Party rise to power?

Answer 1

Throughout the 1920s, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party tried to take control of Germany. At first they tried to simply overthrow the government, but the so-called "Beer Hall Putsch" failed and some Nazis were imprisoned (including Hitler); then they tried to take control legally, through elections. But they could never quite gain any traction. Germany's political system works sort of similar to Britain's- the party (or group of allied parties) that holds the most seats in the Reichstag (parliament) normally chooses the Chancellor, who is the person who actually runs the government; if there is no majority, the President (who is a powerful but mostly symbolic leader, similar to the Queen of England) can just choose one.

Between 1930 and 1933, the Nazis started making alliances with other right-wing parties, especially the Catholic Centre Party and the German National People's Party (Deutschnational Volkspartei in German, or DNVP for short). These other parties, mistakenly thinking they could control Hitler as a puppet, were able to convince the President, Paul von Hindenburg, to make Hitler the Chancellor since there was no majority party, and then hold elections. Hindenburg did so at the end of Jan 1933 (even though he personally disliked Hitler), and elections were scheduled for early March 1933.

However, six days before the elections were to be held, the Reichstag building was set on fire; a Dutch man who was a communist was arrested at the scene, so he and the Communist Party were blamed for starting the fire. Hindenburg issued an executive order, the "Reichstag fire decree", to give Hitler the power to arrest communists. However, Hitler used this new power to arrest communists, socialists and other leftists, and harass voters in general to ensure that his coalition would win more votes.

In the subsequent elections on March 5, 1933, the Nazi-DNVP coalition won a slim majority in the Reichstag. The Nazi party's 288 seats was not quite half of the 647 total seats- but add in the DNVP's 52 seats and they had the 50% needed to have a majority. The Catholic Centre Party was then brought in to ensure that the Nazis had a super-majority (66% of the total seats), so they could pass any bill they wanted, including constitutional amendments.

This right-wing coalition passed the so-called "Enabling Act" on March 23. This single law ended democracy in Germany. It was a constitutional amendment that took all government power and gave it to Hitler himself- he could make and pass laws as he saw fit. At this point, Hitler and his Nazi Party were virtually the undisputed masters of Germany, and only President Hindenburg, a World War I general and hero, remained as a check against Hitler's power- but he was very old and generally unwilling to get involved by that point. The ruling Nazis then began a process called Gleichschaltung ("synchronization"), whereby Nazism was further integrated into German society. Hitler would eventually turn on his Centre and DNVP allies and ban them too- only the Nazi Party was allowed to survive.

Nor was the Nazi Party itself immune to persecution. The Party had its own small army, the Sturmabteilung ("Assault Section", sometimes nicknamed "Brownshirts" due to their uniforms), or SA for short, whose leader, Ernst Röhm, had become powerful- which made Hitler worried about a possible coup d'etat. Additionally, there was a leftist faction within the party, led by brothers Otto and Gregor Strasser, which actually believed in socialism and hoped the party would adopt socialist policies. Hitler had both the SA and Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party wiped out in the "Night of the Long Knives" on June 30, 1934. Shortly thereafter, when Hindenburg died in August 1934, Hitler folded the Presidency and the Chancellorship together into the new position of "Führer" ("Leader"), which only he would hold.

The Enabling Act was only supposed to last for four years, but with the Nazi Party eliminating all internal and external opposition, it was very easy for them to keep renewing the Act every four years until their reign finally ended when they lost World War II.

Answer 2

The Party was founded by one Anton Drexler in March 1918 as the Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (DAP) in Munich, the capital of Bavaria. It waa a tiny, extreme right-wing group with a membership of perhaps 50 to 60. Hitler was ordered by the German army in Munich to spy on this tiny group. He found the meetings very boring and one day - going way beyond his duties as a spy - he delivered a speech of his own. Suddenly, he discovered his ability as a rabble-rousing speaker. The term 'nationalsozialistisch' was added to the name of the Party in 1920, and in 1921 Hitler took over the Party himself. Joncey

Answer 3

The Nazi Party gained so much power from Adolf Hitler. He spke to lots of Germans and told them what they wanted to hear and blamed the Jews and many others for wars and the great depression. nazi party became the second largest political party, won onver 6 million votes.

Answer 4

Hitler was a dictator if he couldn't get something he took it why u may ask well because hes a racist b!@#$.

Hitler was a dictator if he couldn't get something he took it why u may ask well because hes a racist b!@#$.

Answer 5

The Nazi Party tried many tricks. First they tried campaigning and parading in the streets to get elected. They tried violence and deceptions. They finally made it to the government leadership when the President appointed Adolf Hitler to be the Chancellor of Germany. (Sort of like being a vice-president) When the president died Adolf Hitler took over, abolished the constitution and put the Nazis in full power over the German people.

Answer 6

At the time Germany was strugleing so Hitler easily convinced them it was mostly the Jews fault,and that they where the arian race.

Answer 7

they put Hitler in charge

Answer 8

by free election and propoganda