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Hitler's rise and consolidation of power - Coggle Diagram
Hitler's rise and consolidation of power
Made it easier
Hitler's oratorical skills
Likeable public figure
Weakness of Weimar government
People wanted a change
Reichstag fire
Article 48
Emergency powers
Hitler did as he pleased - Fuhrer
Hyperinflation
Weimar government disliked
Great Depression
Germans suffered
Blame Weimar government for incompetency
Want change of government
High unemployment
Weimar government fault
Chancellor
Next in line after president Hindenburg
Gains popularity and emergency powers
Hindenburg (both alive and dead)
Appointed Hitler as chancellor
Give Hitler opportunity to take over as dictator
Underlying cause
Treaty of Vesailles
Germany forced to take full blame - War guilt clause
Hitler finds scapegoat
Jews
Anti-Semitism
Germans feel humiliated
Reichstag fire put pressure on Hindenburg
Enabling act
Hitler get emergency powers
Economic devastation sparked
People turn to Nazi ideology
Loss of faith in the Weimar government
Organised and disciplined Nazi image
July 1932 elections
Nazis win
After Hitler rose to Fuhrer
Joseph Gobbels (Ministry of Propaganda)
Nazi propaganda spread
Stormtroopers and Defence Corps
Night of Long Knives
Heinrich Himmler "jealous" of Ernst Roehm
Tells Hitler that Roehm is planning to overthrow him
Roehm killed