why was Hitler able to gain power in Germany? What factors helped him?
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Germany was doing poorly after WWI. They were faced with the entire debt of that war. The economy was falling apart and they needed a strong leader to pull it together. Hitler spoke of socialism, which is a great idea! But, it is impossible because of people's nature. He sold it on that, and got power.
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The Germans, when they broke the treaty of Versailles. Hitler began taking over neighboring countries and the rest of the world thought Germany wasn't much of a threat so they didn't really pay attention to what Hitler was doing.
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War Guilt - This provision was unfair, because Germany was forced to accept full liability for World War I because it was the only one of the Central Powers large enough and economically powerful enough to pay for the war (while harsh the terms were not outside of Germany's ability to pay - see others of my answers for this aspect). Hitler was able to say that the November Criminals (the German government after the Kaiser had fled) had agreed to something dishonest and had betrayed Germany.\n\nReduction of German military - Germany was required to drastically reduce their military to 100,000 men and to give up fortifications, submarines and military airplanes. Hitler was able to say that Germany had been left defenseless in the face of Communism and Soviet Russia.\n\nPlebescites in Eastern Europe - Because the great empires of Russia, Austria-Hungary and Germany had collapsed and were in political turmoil, provisions were made for the League of Nations to administer plebescites (or elections) to determine which areas would be attached to which countries, but these were done unfairly, specifically the votes were held in areas where the population was unfavorable to union with Germany (like Bohemia), but not in areas that would be favorable to union with Germany (like the Sudetenland in Czechoslavakia). This allowed Hitler to say that populations of ethnic Germans were held captive in foreign lands and were ethnically being persecuted, which gave the excuse for creating a 'Greater Germany.'
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Because there was 'no credible evidence' that Germany was a threat. France believed they could negotiate with Hitler through the League of Nations or other diplomatic channels.
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It's highly unlikely that you'll get the information you've asked for because opinion polling, statistical analysis and predictive modelling techniques weren't around then.  I'd suggest using the results of the elections after the war as a guide as well as empirical evidence from the time (newsreels, editorials etc.)\n\nOf course Messers Hitler, Stalin and Moussolini didn't really have to bother with 'approval' as they were totalitarian dictators.
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Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and then Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 to 1945. \n\nHe was never a "president", but held the comparable post in Germany. For more information follow the link below.
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I think you've got two terms mixed up there. \n\n'The Third Reich' meaning the Third Empire (The Roman Empire & The British Empire being the first two)\n\nand\n\n'The Reichstag' which was the German Parliament.\n\nThe question you're really asking, I suppose is: "Was Hitler's plan to create a Third Reich?"\n\nThe answer is, probably.\n\nIn the First World War, German Premier Kaiser Wilhelm II, was open about his dream of a Third Reich, and made it known that he was jealous of Britains, then thriving, Empire. \n\nHowever, by the time of the Second World War, Adolf Hitler was far more cagey. He never claimed that he was seeking to build an empire. Rather, he used phrases like "Lebensraum" (Living Space) to persuade the then poor people of Germany, (who had suffered from the reparation cost of WW1) to go to war.  \n\nSo he was probably building an Empire initially, through stealth tactics.\n\nFor more information about 'The Third Reich' have a look at the Wikipedia article:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_reich\n\nAlso, Hitlers rise to power might be of interest to you:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_rise_to_power \n\nHave Fun!
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Hitler believed in Aryan supremacy...not white supremacy...most of the Jews he gassed were white folks. As to why, it was a nationalism thing. Germans felt that the world had wronged them with the treaty of Versailles after world war one. It was a time when charismatic people with high ideals could persuade the masses to follow them almost blindly, and the superiority of the Aryan race was a centerpiece of Hitler's German Nationalism. Heinrich Himmler was the one who engineered "the final solution".
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The most simple answer I could say is that Hitler was a man who saw debilitation of his own people. How he defined who was his own people was complicated and odd. But he spoke adamantly and loudly of his beliefs in his form of nationalism. There is a very good video made by the US War Department that puts together a good rough history of Hitler's ideology.
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I don´tt know if i can give you six for each, and it depends where you live to determine it. It played a role in trying to prevent Germany from further invasions, acts of war... but mainly to redistribute territories to european allies and to see who was going to pay for reconstruction. Most the Allies would say:\n\nStrengths:\nGave peace to a long war.\nDemilitarization of parts of Germany\nGeographical Redistribution of Germany\n\nWeaknesses:\nThey treated Germans so bad, that they felt cheated. The established Weimar Republic failed misserably (no work, hyperinflation) and that led to the rise of Hitler to power. Germans found a lost national pride with Hitler speech.
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Hitler and the Germans backed Generalissimo Franco in his fascist takeover of Spain.  The Germans tested many of their weapons and new tactics using the Spanish Civil War as cover for doing so.  Germany was not supposed to have anything more than a defensive Army and no Air Force.  Hitler was able to work the bugs out of several weapons, planes and so forth at the expense of the Spanish people.  Franco who was put into power by winning the Civil War in the 1930's owed much of his success to Hitler and the foreign aid he had given to him.  He was successful at being Neutral during World War II and Franco remained in power in Spain until his death in the 1970's.
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After WWI, Germany was feeling very low. They needed a leader to raise their spirits, their nation's pride. Then, somehow, an Austrian born got the power (of course not with democratic way, but seeming legal) and re-established the pride in the minds of the masses.
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Adolf Hitler (help·info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933, and "Führer" (leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.\n\nHitler gained power in a Germany facing crisis after World War I. Using propaganda and charismatic oratory, he was able to appeal to the economic need of the lower and middle classes, while sounding resonant chords of nationalism, anti-Semitism and anti-communism. With the establishment of a restructured economy, a rearmed military, and a totalitarian fascist dictatorship, Hitler pursued an aggressive foreign policy with the intention of expanding German Lebensraum ("living space"), which triggered World War II when Germany invaded Poland. At the height of its power, Nazi Germany occupied most of Europe, but it and the Axis Powers were eventually defeated by the Allies. By then, Hitler's racial policies had culminated in a genocide of approximately eleven million people, including about six million Jews, in what is now known as the Holocaust.\n\nIn the final days of the war, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin with his newlywed wife, Eva Braun.
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You should explain how everybody in Germany was afraid and starving and the Hitler came along and said all their problems were because of the Jews.  Then after awhile, the people of Germany saw that Hitler was actually bad but then they were too afraid of Hitler and the SS to stand up to them.   Hitler was the same as a school bully who picks on a few kids and no one else has the courage to stop him.
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Hitler's Nazi party captured 18% of the popular vote in the 1930 elections. In 1932, Hitler ran for President and won 30% of the vote, forcing the eventual victor, Paul von Hindenburg, into a runoff election. A political deal was made to make Hitler chancellor in exchange for his political support. He was appointed to that office in January 1933. \n\nUpon the death of Hindenburg in August 1934, Hitler was the consensus successor. With an improving economy, Hitler claimed credit and consolidated his position as a dictator, having succeeded in eliminating challenges from other political parties and government institutions. The German industrial machine was built up in preparation for war. By 1937, he was comfortable enough to put his master plan, as outlined in Mein Kampf, into effect. Calling his top military aides together at the "FÅhrer Conference" in November 1937, he outlined his plans for world domination. Those who objected to the plan were dismissed.\n\ncheers
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Yes Hitler was a horrible dictator in Germany . Who caused so much death and fear .
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Hitler was incredibly smart but also incredibly narrow minded, and he underestimated the will of people to survive. He thought that there was one supreme race, and didn't see that we as people as a whole have incredible will to survive against the worst odds. Its a human trait, not a racial one.\nWhat brought Hitler down was his inability to see that.\nAlso I don't look at him as an idiot, he was just another man who didn't have the right role models growing up and didn't know any better. I mean he had a brilliant mind, he just chose to use his powers for evil instead of good.