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Events which culminated in Hitler coming to powers.

(Out line the event from 1930 – 1933 which helped Hitler coming to power.)

The Wall Street crash in October 1929 created an economic crisis all over the world. The USA stopped any further loans and began to call in money of the short term loans made to Germany. This caused crisis of confidence in the currency and led to a run on the banks, many of which had to close. The starving and destitute people turned to Nazis who promised a bold and new programme. They offered national unity, prosperity and full employment by ridding Germany of what they claimed were the real causes of troubles. As a result the Nazis gained mass support not only among the working class but also among the lower middle classes.

In July 1930 after the Reichstag rejected government budget, President Hindenburg dissolved the legislative and new elections were ordered for September. In this election of September 1930, Nazi party won 107 seats and became second largest party in the Reichstag. Gradually its membership increased and in the election that held in July 1932, it became the largest party in by winning 130 seats in Reichstag. However, Hitler failed to become the chancellor, because the Nazis still lacked an overall majority and he was not yet quite respectable President.

Hindenburg viewed him as an upstart and refused to have him as Chancellor. Hindenburg appointed Franz von Papen as Chancellor. When Von Papen found that he could not maintain law and order in the country, he resigned. In the election of November 1932, the Nazis seats dropped to 196. No party or group of parties gained control of the Reichstag. Kurt von Schleicher was appointed as new chancellor by Hindenburg.

The new government lacked backing in the Reichstag which was necessary to ensure stability. Now a group of right wing politician led by Franz von Papen and Schleicher began to think of doing a deal with Hitler. They felt that the Nazis votes would go a long way towards giving them a majority which might make possible a restoration of the monarchy and a regime to older undemocratic constitutional system in which the Reichstag had much less system powers. So they decided to form a coalition government with Nazi party. In January 1933 they persuaded Hindenburg to invite Hitler to become Chancellor with Papen as vice-chancellor. Hindenburg agreed and appointed Hitler as a Chancellor of Germany on 30th January 1933. Thus the weak political situation helped Hitler to capture power in Germany.

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