hitlers rise

• hitler's start


  • in 1919 hitler joined the german workers party ( led by Drexler) this was a nationalist party
  • he was known as a skilled and passionate speaker and became leader in 1921 after it was rebranded at the nationalist socialist german workers party
• nazi party ( 1920 formation)

  in feb the party pushed its agenda out through the 25 point programme , this had anti-semitic and was extremely patriotic but against non germans

  • promoting german greatness
• SA ( 1921)


  Hitler formed the SA which was a group of political thugs and ex soldiers( freikorps) that had the aim to intimidate communists and rival opponents
• munich putsch (1923 nov)


  hitler tried to hijack a meeting in a beer hall but failed due to information being leaked to police

  so when he entered the hall had police waiting for him and then led him to get a trial
• consequence of beer hall putsch

  in court hitler expressed his views and nazi ideology , this proved in ideology spreading as media was present there and despite only serving 9 months in prison as opposed to his 5 year sentenced he wrote 'mein kampf' to showcase views
• nazi lean years 


  in 1925 the nazi party ban was lifted and hitler had some work done

  set up the SS ( group of body guards that would protect hitler )

  bamberg conference 1926 - hitler shut down aspiring socialists and said they were bad and they should only follow him ( leader principal)
• 1928 and 1926 nazis

  • in 1928 2.6 % of votes and only got 12 seats in the reichstag and members exceeded 100,000
  • also set up hitler youth in 1926 and other societies for other professions to make them feel valued
• stats for nazis


  • may 1924 with 32
  • may 1929 with 12 seats
  • 1930 had 18% of votes and had 300,000 members
  • july 1932 had 37% of votes -230 seats
  • nov 1932 had 33% of votes
• wall street crash 1929

  the wall street crash had hit germany and now germany was reduced economically and had people looking at different party alternatives

  • with 1.6 mill unemployed this lead to starvation and industries collapsing
  • and the great depression
• political unpopularity


  in 1930 new chancellor Bruning introduced harsh policies that caused living standards to fall so he was named ' hunger chancellor' - taxes increased , imported food pricing increased and unemployment insurance was cut back .

  • much of reichstag did not want to agree with these laws so president hindenburg had to use article 48
  • at one point he asked the president to suspend parliament and people said weimar no more felt like a democracy
• political steps to hitler being chancellor

  • april 1932 - hitler vs hindenburg for president but hitler looses
  • may 1932 - bruning resigns as chancellor and von papen replaced him
  • july 1932 - hitler wings reichstag elections but hindenburg doesnt trust him to be chancellor
  • nov 1932 - hitler is still at majority but has lost a few seats
  • december 1932 - papen is replaced with schleichar and makes deal with hitler that hitler is chancellor and he is vice chancellor when he asks hindenburg
  • jan 1933 - hitler is chancellor