What caused Hitler's rise to power?

[Хahar 🤔]

He basically created a political party and then gained the most amount votes.

Lol. Read a book.

Well, the DAP that he found was so different from the NSDAP that took power that it could be said that he essentially created it.

I wasn't talking about that part of his statement entirely. His entire statement put into the realm of things and the question is funny.

In that case, it was pretty funny.

[Albus Dumbledore]

He basically created a political party and then gained the most amount votes.

Do you even know anything at all about world history?

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He basically created a political party and then gained the most amount votes.

Do you even know anything at all about world history?

I assume "He basically created a political party and then gained the most amount votes." is his answer to any question of this type.

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

Hitler just made a cult.Hitler just used necheze's book and turned his words around. It is mind over matter.

[Хahar 🤔]

Hitler just made a cult.Hitler just used necheze's book and turned his words around. It is mind over matter.

Necheze? Do you mean Nietzsche?

[Countess Anya of the North Parish]

yup sorry.

[Dan the Roman]

I'll put 2 cents in

1. The indecisiveness of the Versilles treaty. Contrary to common opinion the Versilles treaty was not that harsh on Germany and was a good deal more generious than the terms that were granted to Russia at Brest Litvosk or would have been given to France had the allies lost. The problem was that most Germans believed right up until the moment that they asked for an armistice that they were on the verge of victory. It was inconceivable to go from victory to collapse overnight.

This made them poorly prepared to accept defeat. This faced the allies with a choice and a problem. Germany was in 1918 still the most powerful country in Europe, and with Russia and Austria down for the count and France crippled that would be even more true in the future. The allies could offer generous terms that would bring Germany's new Democratic government into alliance with the West against Russia, but this would relagate France to playing second fiddle rendering the death's of millions of Frenchmen meaningless. On the other hand the treaty could try and weaken Germany, pherhaps by undoing Bismarck's work of 1870 and splitting Germany up into its member states.

In the end the allies settled for neither. They enforced a treaty harsh enough that it alienated Germany, but generous enough that by the end of the 1920s Germany was again the most powerful country in Europe. This was a dangerious combination and would have led to a clash in the 1930s regardless of whethe Hitler existed.

2. As for Hitler himself, he benifitted from the inflexibility of the German right which had delusions of returning to the 19th century and failed to realize that National Socialism and not Liberalism was the greatest threat to Germany. This was exacerbated by a military that was never under civilian control, and a political system that gave all the power to the Presidency when the Reichstag was unable to function while simultaneously instituting an electoral system that ensured the Reichstag would not.

[Хahar 🤔]

1. Versailles is marvellously overrated, IMO. The Versailles problems were over by the late '20s, and the NSFB polled terribly even in 1924, at the height of the superinflation. The Depression did it.

2. Quite right; very perceptive.