Hitler's rise and consolidation of power
Made it easier
Hitler's oratorical skills
Weakness of Weimar government
Reichstag fire
Emergency powers
Hyperinflation
Great Depression
Underlying cause
Treaty of Vesailles
High unemployment
Reichstag fire put pressure on Hindenburg
Enabling act
Hitler get emergency powers
Economic devastation sparked
People turn to Nazi ideology
Chancellor
Hindenburg (both alive and dead)
Loss of faith in the Weimar government
Organised and disciplined Nazi image
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
July 1932 elections
Nazis win
Germany forced to take full blame - War guilt clause
Hitler finds scapegoat
Germans feel humiliated
Jews
Anti-Semitism
Article 48
Likeable public figure
People wanted a change
Hitler did as he pleased - Fuhrer
Germans suffered
Blame Weimar government for incompetency
Want change of government
Next in line after president Hindenburg
Gains popularity and emergency powers
Weimar government disliked
Weimar government fault
Appointed Hitler as chancellor
Give Hitler opportunity to take over as dictator