The Rise Of Hitler To Dictator Of Germany

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Term Paper Title	The Rise Of Hitler To Dictator Of Germany
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The Rise of Hitler to Dictator of Germany

I. 1919-1923

A.  Formation of the Nazi Party

1. Hitler volunteered for the German army, fought in WWI, but was only a corporal.  After the war ended, remained on active duty and was transferred to Munich.
2. Bavaria, in 1919, was a principal focus of the Communist offensive in central Europe
3. Communist threat made Bavaria a center for anticommunist, antisocialist, and antidemocratic agitations of all kinds.  It swarmed with secret societies and paramilitary organizations led by discontented army officers or others who fitted with difficulty into the Weimar democracy.
4. Hitler, working with the army’s instruction program created to combat socialist and democratic propaganda among the demobilized veterans and workers and keep alive a military spirit, joined a tiny party called the German Worker’s party, and soon became its leader.
5. In early 1920 he proclaimed its 25-point program, the party now calling itself the National Socialist German Workers’ party.  Thus were born the Nazis.  Now demobilized, Hitler was fully launched on a career of radical politics.

B. Obstacles to the Weimar Government

1. Versailles treaty
2. Reparations
3. Catastrophic inflation of 1923
4. Failure of the republicans to inaugurate the kind of deep social changes that might have democratized the political and social structure of German society and thereby strengthened the republican forces.
5. Communist agitations, but more dangerous because they attracted more sympathy among the Germans were the maneuvers of monarchist and antirepublican organizations, which threatened uprising such as the Kapp Putsch in 1920; a good example of these “armies” would be the Brownshirts or the Stormtroopers of the Nazi Party.
6. 1923, when reparations were not forthcoming, the French army occupied the Ruhr; a national indignation swept over Germany.
7. Hitler and the National Socialists denounced the Weimar government for shameful submission to the French; judged the moment to seize power—at the end of 1923, the Brownshirts staged the “beer hall Putsch” in Munich.  The police suppressed the disturbance and Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison.  He wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) during this time.  The book and the publicity that accompanied his 5-week trial converted Hitler into a political figure of national prominence.

II. 1924-1929

A. Prosperity for the Weimar Republic

1. Beginning in 1924, Germany enjoying an amazing economic revival;
a. Fre...

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