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How Hitler became chancellor - Coggle Diagram
How Hitler became chancellor
4 Key players:
Hindenburg - hero of WW1 and president of Weimar
Bruning - the chancellor
von Papen - politician and friend of Hindenburg
von Schleicher - army general
Hindenburg re - election
Hindenburg gets re-elected as president
Hitler increases his share of the vote
Chancellor Bruning : bans the SA and SS - it's unpopular so he resigns
Bruning is replaced by von Papen
Schleicher proposes a coalition between right wing supporters and the Nazis (NDSAP)
Hitler agrees to the coalition so long as the SA ban is removed
The coalition takes power
Nazi share of the vote increases from 18% to 30% and Hitler demands to be made chancellor
Hindenburg refuses
von Papen goes
Schleicher warns Hindenburg that if von Papen stays as chancellor there will be civil war
von Papen resigns and is replaced by von Schleicher
Von papen and Hindenburg's bad decision
von schleicher doesn't have support of the public or the Nazis so tries to persuade Hindenburg that he could be the head of a military dictatorship
Hindenburg refuses
Hindenburg and von papen appoint Hitler as chancellor, thinking they could control him to avoid schleicher's dictatorship
Hitler becomes chancellor