This is for school.  I'm supposed to explain what happened in 1932 that allowed the Nazis to come to power.  I think it was some kind of election that allowed them to become a great political power in Germany but I'm not sure so I figured maybe I could get some of your insights to my problem.  If these elections are what helped then let me know.
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In July of 1932, the Nazi party won an impressive 230 seats in the 608 seat Reichstag.  Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party, then demanded that the aging president Paul von Hindenburg appoint him the chancellor of Germany. Hindenburg refused.  Political chaos reigned in the Reichstag and new elections were called in Nov.  Even though the Nazis won fewer seats, they still maintained a noticeable presence in the Reichstag.  Newly appointed chancellor  Kurt von Schleicher was unable to hold together a coalition and resigned.  Hindenburg then appointed Adolf Hitler in Jan. 1933.
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We entered WWII after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, not because Hitler declared war on America, it was common knowledge that Hitler wanted to take over the world. It wasn't 20 million people it was 11-12 million. if you really want to place the blame anywhere but the Nazis and Fascists then you should blame France and Britain and the other Allies that attend the Munich Conference. It was here that the policy of appeasement was applied towards Hitler. Appeasement if you don't know is the act of giving in to enemies in order to avoid war. Britain and France allowed hitler to take over the Rhineland and it was only after hitler's invasion of Poland that the rest of Europe declared war. Also the blame lies with the individals that lived in areas surrounding the concentration camps that swore after the war that they had no idea what was going on in their backyards (as if the smell of rotting and burning flesh isn't and obvious give away!!) and FDR's New Deal Programs helped to pull us out of the Great Depression as opposed to Hoover who didn't try to help the unemployed and starving people that were being thrown from their homes!
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In 1936, Jews were banned from all professional jobs, effectively preventing them exerting any influence in education, politics, higher education and industry. On 15 November of 1938, Jewish children were banned from going to normal schools. By April 1939, nearly all Jewish companies had either collapsed under financial pressure and declining profits, or had been forced to sell out to the Nazi-German government as part of the "Aryanization" policy inaugurated in 1937.\n\nAs the war started, large massacres of Jews took place, and, by December 1941, Hitler decided to completely exterminate European Jews. In January 1942, during the Wannsee conference, several Nazi leaders discussed the details of the "Final Solution of the Jewish question" (Endlösung der Judenfrage). Dr. Josef Bühler urged Reinhard Heydrich to proceed with the Final Solution in the General Government. They began to systematically deport Jewish populations from the ghettos and all occupied territories to the seven camps designated as Vernichtungslager, or extermination camps: Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets, Sobibór and Treblinka II. Sebastian Haffner published the analysis in 1978 that Hitler from December 1941 accepted the failure of his goal to dominate Europe forever on his declaration of war against the United States, but that his withdrawal and apparent calm thereafter was sustained by the achievement of his second goal—the extermination of the Jews.\n------------------------------------------------------------\nJews were the main victims. One could say their role was to be rounded up like cattle to concentration camps or death camps.\nAdded:\nAs for communities, they were started in other countries where the Jews fled to. After the second world war.
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If Germany would have known when to stop with it's expansionism, Nazism would probably still be in place.\n    Sucking up a few smaller countries just wasn't enough for the madman Hitler, he had to push his agenda of extermination of the Jews and total world conquest.
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At the time of WWII the allies were very anxious to have the United States enter and aide in the conflict due to the fact that at the time it was one of the only countries with the resources to possibly wage a successful war against Germany.  Of course there is always politics in any conflict but the basic reason for the war was Germany's desire to conquer and rule countries and people that wished to maintain their own sovereignty.
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ROUND OF APPLAUSE for this man! Finally, someone besides me has figured out that Republicans = Nazis.\n\nFrightening, is it not, that the Govt currently holding power has so much in common with Nazism. My favorite quote is from Hitler: "What good fortune for Government that the People do not think." Brainwash the masses with religeon, and govt will follow. If you read Hitler's book, you'll see that he actually modelled the Nazi party on the Church, and used religeous ceremony under cover of darkness to hypnotize the masses into believeing the crap he preached.
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Hilter didn't just hate the Jews and black people, he hated Catholics, German's who helped people flee from his wrath, people with disablities (even if you walked with a limp). If you even had a sixteenth of Jewish blood in you, you were consider Jewish. According to the Holucust Mesume in Washington DC, he wanted to create the ulimate race of Germans (blonde hair and blue eyes). Hilter was an interesting chararter. A bad apple that's for sure. He was brought to power by promising the people of Germany food and bring the country's economy back up. After WWI German suffered greatly from debts and such. So of course they would listen to the devil himself if he made such promises. I hope this answers your question.
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World war 2. Around 1938. Time of hitler coming to power.
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There was a Zionist movement as far back as the late 1800's but because of Hitler, thousands moved to what was then Palestine either before the Holocaust began in earnest or as survivors and created a Jewish state of Israel. The Arabs have been trying to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth ever since. \n\nSecondly, it was Nazi scientists who were ahead in the race to discover nuclear power and the destruction that goes with it. Again, many great scientists either got out of Germany when they could or came to the States after the war. Some, I believe, were even "smuggled" out of Nazi Germany during the war to work on nuclear power for us. Both the development of the Atom Bomb and the pivotal role in the war that Hitler started made the US a super power. Before that, the US army had been down-graded to almost non-existence after the first world war. \n\nWho knows how many great artists, musicians, scientists, doctors, etc. were murdered or prevented from being born because their parents were murdered during the Holocaust. Six million Jews is a lot of people. Six million non-Jews is, too. Who knows what these people might have been and might have done for the world if they had survived?\n\nI hope this helps. Good question!
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"Instead of working to achieve power by armed coup, we shall hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the opposition deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than outshooting them, at least the results will be guaranteed by their own constitution. Sooner or later we shall have a majority, and after that- Germany." Adolf Hitler spoke these words in 1920, soon after becoming leader of the newly named National Socialist German Workers'' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party. There are many contributing factors which lead to Hitler''s gain in power over the next thirteen years. The recent history of post-war Germany, and the events that would follow were of perfect conditions for the rise of an extremist party such as the Nazis. World War One had left Germany in defeat. Germany was put under immense pressure by the treaty of Versailles, which contributed to the disastrous and politically unstable early twenties. Hitler was a strong and manipulating character, with extraordinary leadership skills and his party was very tactical. He was very much underestimated by opposing political parties. He seized his opportunity to gain power in the years of the depression. This essay will review these conditions in Germany which lead to Hitler and his Nazis'' becoming the sole political party in the Reichstag in 1933.\n\nThe German Empire was formed in 1871 and soon became one of Europe''s most influential countries. It dominated in industrial and military power, and the German people were proud of their achievements. Up until the end of World War One, Germany was ruled by a Kaiser. From 1888 the Kaiser was Wilhelm II. He was very ambitious and militaristic and a threat to other countries. The German people were very accustomed to success, and when Germany was defeated in World War One, they were shocked and angry. It was a condition for peace that the Germans got rid of the Kaiser and become democratic. A new constitution was drawn up, called the Weimar Constitution. This constitution was genuinely democratic but had some weaknesses that made it harder for the Republic to cope. A president ruled with a chancellor and proportional representation in the Reichstag. Proportional representation made the Republic weak in that parties were very uncooperative. No party could get a majority, so the government had to be run by coalitions. There could never be a strong government. The president had too much power over the government and could turn himself into a dictator. This was made possible by Article forty-eight in the constitution which stated that in an emergency, the president could make laws without going first to the Reichstag. The Social Democratic Party, or SPD, was the largest party in the Reichstag in the early years of German democracy. It was the only party which held strong support for the Weimar Republic. A lot of the disasters which happened in the early stages of the republic was blamed on the SPD by extremist groups like the German Communist Party, or KPD and the Nazi party. The Nazi Party gained support from the German people through blaming the SPD and the KPD for disastrous events. And there were plenty of things to complain about. The Versailles Treaty, drawn up by leaders of Allied parties after the first World War was very hard on the Germans. They faced territorial losses- more then thirteen percent of Germany was taken by Allied countries, and their most productive industrial territory, the Rhineland, was occupied by allies. Overseas colonies were taken too. Germany was forced to pay reparations for damage caused by the war. The term for peace that the Germans most resented was article two hundred and thirty-one which blamed Germany for the war. The German people were angry and bitter, looking for someone to blame. Extremist groups gave them someone to blame, the new government. During this time there were attempted uprisings from both the extreme left and right of the politi
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In my view, nothing he did pre-war was particularly noteworthy.  The economy lifted out of depression due to the government's exorbitant defense (correction: offense) spending.  So the great economic turnaround of 1930s Germany was thanks to the mass-production of war materiel that could (and would) cause the deaths of millions of people.  Not exactly what I would prefer to spur the economy, and I say that not just because he's Hitler, but because I deplore it when any civilization or nation (including my own) gains in wealth and power at the expense of the lives of innocent people.\n\nAs regards national pride, I believe that national pride contributes to an unhealthy militaristic spirit.  Throughout history, pride in one's nation and one's own kind has led to fear and hatred of that which is foreign or alien.  Only when a people's "national pride" has sufficiently been whipped into a frenzy are those people capable of committing acts of war on that which is foreign to them.\n\nI grant that the German war machine was among the mightiest in history - but so what?  All that effort - the enormous amounts of economic and human capital that went into developing that war machine - wasted in wars of aggression and acts of brutality against those who look or talk or act or believe differently.  Germany could be one of today's superpowers and could have averted the Cold War and the subjugation of millions of people by Communism in Eastern Europe and the misery of millions more in "domino theory" wars around the globe had Hitler not wasted the best and brightest of a generation.
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"Better" racists? Hope you lagging English skills. There was nothing good about either of them. I'm a German and I know what I'm talking about. If you mean, which was the bigger organisation, then it was the Nazis. We controlled almost the whole European continent and had big allies. We pretty much scared the living shit out of everybody on this Planet these days. Ask old people. Our enemies where shitting themselves. KKK is not even known that well in Europe and cant compare to the third Reich.
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Actually, it was about neither. It was economics and social structure. You need to learn a LOT more about the haulocaust. Hitler was anti-religion. He made the Catholics of Germany burn their bibles, etc.
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Although this answer does not directly relate to the question asked, I do wish to point out that NAZIs were members of the National Socialist party in Germany.  Socialists are as liberal as you get without becoming communists, who are even further to the left.\n\nWhy do liberals try to change history by saying NAZIs were conservative?
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The Germans were severly oppressed after their defeat in WW1 and the civil unrest allowed Adolph Hitler to win their confidence, promising to restore Germany's power and dignity.  \n\nHitler then set about a world conquest program that included the other Axis powers.  He lost.  So did Italy and Japan.  So did everyone else in many respects.  The Baltic nations were swallowed into Communism by the USSR, England was devastated and blood ran deep in most of Europe.\n\nJohnny
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Sorry but all of you are mistaken. Hitler and Nazism are often wrongly described as far rightist leader and party. Such assertion has been repeatedly used by the communists to diabolize right wing parties an other of their opponents in numerous countries. Read carefully on Hitler and Nazism and you will learn that Hitler, and a dozen of fellows he met first in 1919 in a café, founded the National Socialist Deutch Arbeit Partei (NSDAP) which once translated in English means German National Socialist Workers Party. Once he got German Chancelor Hitler enacted compulsory work for everybody, he asked Ferdinand Porsche to build the Volkswagen Beetle (literally translated in English Volkswagen means "people's car") and as far as I read in history books relating to this period nothing has never been done by Hitler and his regime to promote capitalism or anything akin to right wing ideology. The only true fact is that Hitler expressed hatred toward communists, and it is certainly for this reason that in return the communists said of the Nazis that they belong to the conservative right wing. \nBut Hitler cannot be described as conservative too. He changed everything in Germany, which was until his coming up on the political stage a capitalist and conservative country.
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(m)\n\nThe Lead Up to World War 2\nChemical Cartels\nWithout a doubt, a key player in the cause of World War 2 was the powerful Adolf Hitler.  But the major source of Hitler's power came from a chemical cartel called I.G. Farben, (the name is an abbreviation of the complete name: Interssen Gemeinschaft Farben.) The importance of I.G. Farben's support for the Socialist movement was pointed out in a book about the cartel, in which it is stated: "without I.G.'s immense production facilities, its far reaching research, varied technical experience and overall concentration of economic power, Germany would not have been in a position to start its aggressive war in September, 1939."1\n\nBut I.G. Farben had a little-known source of its enormous economic power: Wall Street, U.S.A. "Without the capital supplied by Wall Street, there would have been no I.G. Farben in the first place, and almost certainly no Adolf Hitler and World War II."2\n\nI.G. Farben had its beginning in 1924 when American banker Charles Dawes arranged a series of foreign loans totalling $800 million to consolidate gigantic chemical and steel combinations into cartels, one of which was I.G. Farben. Professor Can-oil Quigley terms the Dawes Plan: "largely a J.P. Morgan production."3\n\nThree Wall Street houses, Dillon, Read & Co.; Harris, Forbes & Co.; and National City handled three-quarters of the loans used to create these cartels.\n\nThe importance of LG. Farben to the plans of the German Nazi Party can be illustrated by a product that an I.G. dominated company manufactured. It was called Zyklon B, the lethal gas utilized by the exterminators at Auschwitz, Bitterfeld, Walfen, Hoechst, Agfa, Ludwigshafen, and Buchenwald. (I.G. Farben, being a chemical company even before it was merged with other chemical companies to form the cartel, was also the producer of the chlorine gas used during World War I.) American support for I.G. Farben continued as Henry Ford merged his German assets with those of I.G. in 1928.4\n\nBut the real importance of I.G. to the war efforts of Adolf Hitler came in the utilization of the process known as hydrogenation, the production of gasoline from coal, created by the I.G. Farben chemical cartel. Germany had no native gasoline production capabilities, and this was one of the main reasons it lost World War I. A German scientist discovered the process of converting coal (Germany was the possessor of large quantities of coal) into gasoline in 1909, but the technology was not completely developed during the war. In August, 1927, Standard Oil agreed to embark on a cooperative program of research and development of the hydrogenation process to refine the oil necessary for Germany to prepare for World War II.\n\nAnd finally, on November 9, 1929, these two giant companies signed a cartel agreement that had two objectives:\n\nFirst, the cartel agreement granted Standard Oil one-half of all rights to the hydrogenation process in all countries of the world except Germany; and\n\nSecondly, the two agreed: "... never to compete with each other in the fields of chemistry and petroleum products. In the future, if Standard Oil wished to enter the broad field of industrial chemicals or drugs, it would do so only as a partner of Farben.\n\nFarben, in turn, agreed never to enter the field of petroleum except as a joint venture with Standard."5\n\nThis cartel agreement was extremely important to the war effort, because, by the end of the war, Germany was producing about seventy-five percent of its fuel synthetically.\n\nBut even more significant was the fact that these plants were not the subject of Allied bombing raids, so that, by the war's end, twenty-five to thirty of its refineries were still operating with only about fifteen percent damage.\n\nStandard Oil got into the refining business as well. In fact, William Dodd, the U.S. Ambassador in Germany, wrote the following in his diary about the pre-war