The Enabling Act: The Rise Of Hitler

Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi party, rose to power for many reasons. The economical, social, and political standpoints in Germany at the time were a disaster. He promised German people he would bring back the pride in their the country. After World War I the economic situation was abhorrent. The war damaged the economy, and had gone into hyperinflation, which wiped out citizens savings quickly. The long term hatred and deep anger about World War I and the Treaty of Versailles created an underlying bitterness, which made him get more supporters. Another main factor was his influential way of speaking. One way Germany got popular with the crowd was because of Hitler’s speaking ability and most importantly,

The causes of Hitler and the Nazi Party gaining power in Germany in 1934 were a large combination of factors. The first was losing world war one which created serious social, political, and economic effects on the Nation with the addition of the treaty of Versailles, the Wall Street crash and the Great Depression of 1929. Secondly, the newly elected socialist democratic government saw unable to provide solutions to all the crises - leading to the fall out of the Weimar Republic. The third factors were that Hitler would be secretly backed by powerful interests with the overuse of Article 48 and the supply of money from successful businessmen as he seemed to be the only politician able to provide the answers to the problems and his public speaking skills would

Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy… No matter how long it may takes us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory” (President Franklin D. Roosevelt). The Bombing of Pearl Harbor was when Japan sent the kamikazes, suicide pilots, to crash into American ships. Japan did this so that the Americans couldn’t interfere with their invasion into the Dutch East Indies and also into Malaya for their oil and rubber. This happened on December 7, 1941 just outside of Honolulu, Hawaii, on an important naval base of Pearl Harbor. “This attack killed 2,400 soldiers, and left another

Totalitarianism is defined as a political system in which the state holds total power over the society. This is the political ideology that the Nazi party practiced during its reign from 1933 to 1945 when they lost in WW2. Hitler used totalitarianism to control the German people and inspired loyalty. He achieved complete unity between the state and its people by becoming a totalitarian dictator.

The Holocaust was a mass murdering of millions of people. Most of the people killed were of the Jewish population. The number of people killed was so high they had to make a new word for it, genocide (Rice 11). The leader of this genocide was Adolf Hitler. Hitler is a German dictator (Fremon 7). Hitler appointed a leader for the SS, that leader was Heinrich Himmler (SS Timeline). Together, with the help of the Nazis, they would take over all of Europe. The Holocaust took place during World War 2 (Rice 11). As a result of the war, they also had prisoners of war they had to take care of. The Jewish, the Russians, the Polish, and even the Gypsies were all put into concentration camps (Kornblum 927). The camps were all over

Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, which ended Germany’s old way of government. He used propaganda to show his politically racist agenda and used violence to

One of the final nails in the coffin of Jewish Germans was the Enabling Act. The Enabling Act or more formally known as the “Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich” (“The Enabling Act”, par. 1). was a law passed by the Nazi Party enabling Hitler to have all power of the government in his authority. With all power in Hitler's hands and absolutely no one that could stop him with contradictory political power and influence he could do almost everything as he wanted and forward his plans of genocide and hate onto the Jewish people.

January 30, 1933: President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. This date in History was the start to one of the most tragic events the human civilization has ever experienced. This was the start of the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler grew up in Austria and later moved to germany and fought in World War 1. After the war Hitler joined the National Socialist German workers party known as the Nazis. Hitler quickly went up the ranks in the nazi’s largely due to his powerful speaking ability. On October 23rd 1923 Hitler prepared the Nazi’s to take out the communists and jews in Berlin. That night Hitler was arrested and served nine months in prison. While in prison Hitler wrote a book called mein kampf that was about how Hitler despised

The Holocaust was a traumatic event that greatly affected Jews in Germany between 1933 and 1945. During this time, approximately 6 million Jews were killed. This mass murder took place after the election of Adolf Hitler. After Hitler became the chancellor, he created something called the Enabling Act, which allowed him to create his own laws. Hitler’s main focus was to “ethnically cleanse” Germany in an attempt to create the perfect race. Since he was able to create his own laws, he decided to create laws that gave Jews few rights, and, with the help of a man named Adolf Eichmann, eventually leading them to be placed in camps called concentration camps. The Holocaust went on for a long time before anyone found out what had been going on causing the effects to be tremendous.

“ If you tell a big enough lie and keep saying it people will start to believe it.” Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from which lead from 1933 and ended in 1945; also the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He had a major impact on the modern world.

The ways Hitler and Stalin gained absolute power were different. Hitler gained power in a more democratic way. Benefited from Hitler’s extraordinary oratorical skill, he gained more and more support from the public taking advantages of German people’s nationalism even racialism after the WWI, and the Great Depression from 1929. Under the banner of National Socialism and seeking goods for the public, his National Socialist German Worker’s Party was selected to be the largest party in the Reichstag in 1932. Meanwhile, his political

After the abdication of the Kaiser in 1918, Germany became a republic led by President Ebert of the SPD, with its new constitution designed to avoid a dictatorial style leadership. However, elements of the constitution such as proportional representation, the army oath, Article 48 and democracy made it difficult for the Republic to succeed.

Winston Churchill said in his War Speech on 3 September, 1939, "We are fighting to save the whole world from the pestilence of Nazi tyranny and in defense of all that is most sacred to man." What happened to cause Britain to declare war on Germany? World War 1 ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, but ironically the treaty became the first in a list of causes of that led to World War 2. The treaty blamed the war on Germany and Austria-Hungary and rather than make peace, it punished them by making them pay la, limiting their military size, and giving German land to other countries. War indebtment and an unstable government coupled with the Great Depression of 1929, led to an economic crash in Germany. These things

Adolf Hitler. We all know the name. We all see him as a horrible man for his actions. For his dictatorship. But what do we know about him personally? Yes, we know he performed the Holocaust. He was said to be racist towards Jews. We learned all about that as kids. And yes, he was a horrible man. He shouldn’t have done anything he did, but why did he do it? What was his childhood like? What were his dreams? What led up to him being dictator? What made Hitler who he was?