Reichstag

It is heavily debated that the rise of political extremists severely threatened the Weimar Republic, leading to its inevitable collapse. The upsurge of key figures such as Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the Spartacist Uprising in 1919 displayed how the Republic were unprepared for any attack. Moreover, this threat was not noticed as two successive revolts took place in 1920 and 1923. However, other factors have surfaced to suggest that other threats were at hand. For example, it can be…

When Hitler and his Nazi party took power of the Reichstag in 1933, they immediately set forth in turning Germany’s fortune around. This began with economic reform, political consolidation of power and the creation of National Labor battalions. As the economy began to turn around, Hitler shifted his focus…

The Third Reich was a period of history where the country of Germany was under the control of the National-Socialist German Workers’ Party, or the Nazi Party. The rise of the Reich followed Germany’s defeat in World War One and the country’s vulnerable state made it susceptible to the eventual takeover of both Nazi ideology and Adolf Hitler. Through excessive propaganda and manipulation, Nazis were able to unconditionally control Germany for 12 years. During this time, The Reich ignited World…

later. Hitler is involved with women in a string of unhappy love affairs that include the suicide of his niece Geli. Hitler’s party soon becomes the second largest party in the Reichstag. Hitler soon is appointed Chancellor by President Hindenburg and quickly establishes a dictatorship. This is solidified after the Reichstag fire, which Hitler blames the communist for. Then in the “Night of the Long Knives” Hitler has many opponents and rivals killed, including Ernst Rohm the leader of the SA…

Fascists got the next votes, thus getting a ⅔ majority, in 1925, Parliament named Mussolini head of government. On the first day of Hitler becoming chancellor, he manipulated the president of Germany to dissolve the Reichstag and called for new elections. On March 23, the newly elected Reichstag met and passed Hitler’s Enabling Act, which in effect would vote democracy out of existence in Germany and named Hitler the legal dictator of Germany. Mussolini and Hitler were very similar in how they…

Hitler believed that there were four main ideas that would create a supreme Germany and for it to be seen as a great nation again. He believed that he needed to expand Germany to grow his following. He wanted complete power to redeem WW1 and get revenge on the people that discriminated against Germany. It did not help that Germany had to abide by the Treaty of Versailles laws. The Treaty laws were mostly aimed at Germany and how they could pay for WW1. Hitler also believed that Jews contaminated…

From 1919-1945 one man changed the world and brought Germany and the whole world into war. He planned his way to get the whole power of Germany. His slow and silent way to manipulate and influence his followers with his speeches against the government in Germany helped him to destroy the political system to form a dictatorship. With the dictatorship he created concentrations camps to kill Jews and foreigners- people who were insects in his eyes. One man brought the whole world in war. The way…

Following Germany’s defeat in World War One, the allies presented a document known as Diktat (on dictated peace) to the German Government at the Palace of Versailles. Forcing Germany to take responsibility for the war, the nation was left powerless and in a state of depression. The unfair terms removed all pre-war colonies, acquired 48% of its iron production, 16% of its coal production, 13% of its territory and 12% of its population. Furthermore the imposed reparations acted as a noose around…

12. The Sturmabteilung, also known as the Brownshirts, was the organization Adolf Hitler created to protect the Nazi Party from potential dangers at assemblies, but later began to disrupt rival parties’ meetings and to intimidate voters, Nazi opponents, and Jews in the streets. They were known as the Brownshirts because from the founding in 1921, the organization utilized brown shirts as their uniforms, as they were easily obtainable. The founding itself was controversial, as the Treaty of…

Disillusion Back in May 1928, Germany had just voted for constitutional parties, leaving Müller, a Social Democrat to become the country 's new Chancellor. Four years later, the Nazi Party (NSDAP) had earned the largest portion of control over the Reichstag parliament, with 37.4% of the vote, compared to only 2.5% in 1928. How did the political and economical context help the Nazis mold their promises and image so as to appeal to the masses during the elapsed period? Under Müller, the German…