Reichstag

On April 20th, 1889, a man was born in the town of Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary. That man came to be known as Adolf Hitler. When he was three, he moved from his hometown in Austria-Hungary to Germany. As a child, he had an interest in becoming an artist. He also became obsessed with German nationalist ideas, despising the declining House of Habsburg. However, when his younger brother died in 1900, he became increasingly detached. After his father’s death, his mother permitted him to drop out…

of the possibility of a civil war or being overthrown by his rivals. While it took Hitler a bit more time to learn that a violent takeover was not the wisest plan, he too took power legally by making his party the biggest and most popular in the Reichstag through clever campaigning tactics. President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor in January 1933, convinced he could eventually get rid of him when the trouble in Germany died down. However, both Mussolini and Hitler used their…

responses to the limits on their power. Their response to limits as they evolved their power, allowed for a greater expansion of their power. Hitler's ability to convince ‘the masses' of his authenticity allowed for the Nazis to gain control of the Reichstag and…

holding the majority in the Reichstag. The destruction of the Reichstag aided in countering this opposition…

The smaller parties started to turn to the Nazis to repel the Communists. In the election of 1932 the Nazis won 37 percent of total votes. They became the largest solo-party in the Reichstag. Hitler demanded to become the Chancellor, but President Hindenburg made Franz von Papen the Chancellor instead. Von Papen was soon replaced by General Kurt von Schleicher. Desirous to regain power, von Papen made a deal with to make Hitler Chancellor…

Germany in 1975 by two Marxist leaders, by the names of Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel, which was the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). The SPD considered itself to be a mass political party that would be involved in the elections for the Reichstag (German parliament). Once the SPD was in the German parliament, there main focus was to improve the working conditions of the industrial workers. As the parliament tried to destroy it, the SPD continued to grow,…

rather a back fall if the German circumstances worsened. Prior to the elections the Reichstag building was burnt down which led Hitler to assume this was a tactic for communist takeover. Using fear of communism, Hitler was able to convince President Hindenburg to pass the Enabling Act. The Enabling Act was created on March 23, 1933 and it gave Hitler the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. This act is important in the Hitler myth, because it is one of the many examples…

of this and they did not offer strong, effective leadership. Because the government could not get anything passed, the use of Article 48 increased from 1930 to 1932. In 1930 there were only 5 decrees issued and the Reichstag sat 94 times. In 1932 60 decrees were issued and the Reichstag sat only 13 times (Fact table, Weimar and Nazi Germany by S. Lee). This suggests that the Chancellor at the time- Hindenburg- used Article 48 many times. Because of the increase of the President taking matters…

ould World War II have been avoided? “WWII” was massive, it’s estimated that around 48,231,700 people were killed during the conflict. The whole world was affected by the catastrophe known as “WWII”, which could have been avoided if the following things didn’t happen: If the treaty of Versailles wasn’t signed, the League of Nations didn’t fail and the Nazi party never came to power. “WWII” could have been avoided if the treaty of Versailles was not signed. This could’ve happened if the British…

wrong side they did all the movement of gov really fast that it lead to some weaknesses and this was by a weak leadership in the treaty of versailles, they had a really weak leadership because some didn't know how to be the leader they send that reichstag or the chancellor that depends on the action but was overviewed and it weak all of the weimar republic. The weimar republic do had weaknesses and they were…