Why Did Hitler Become Chancellor

Overall, I do agree with the given statement. Despite the fact that Hitler was not elected by the public to be chancellor, his support can be said to have played a major part in influencing President Hindenburg to ask Hitler to be chancellor. At the time Hitler became chancellor, an extremely large amount of people despised the current German government due to being the reason why the Dawes plan was introduced, which ultimately led to depression in Germany. (The US recalled the loans after the wall street crash, and Germany was unable to deal with this loss of money, and so fell into depression with many businesses failing). Due to being against the current government, many people began to support the Nazi's for the hope of change.
Many people, mainly the middle class, supported the Nazi's due to being a big party, and for their views against the communists , who were gaining many more supporters. (The Nazi party looked like the only Party that could challenge the communists). The social democrats' failure to team up with the communists to defeat the Nazi party gave them this opportunity to defeat the communists.
The Nazi party promised many different things, including promising to abolish the Treaty of Versailles that caused so much pain in Germany, rebuild the army to a significant size, and provide jobs to the unemployed (There …show more content…
They used colour films, and videos such as The Triumph Of The Will in their propaganda campaign. The SA were also good at forcing people to support for the Nazi party through fear tactics. Furthermore, Hitler could be very mobile as he owned his own plane, meaning he was able to perform speeches across the country all in one day which would help to gain new supporters in a shorter time. Donations from wealthy supporters, whom were mainly businessmen, helped to strengthen the party as