Hitler's Rise to Power

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This paper looks at the reasons behind Hitler's rise to power through the analysis of three books: M. H. Kater's "The Nazi Party", W. S. Allen's "The Nazi Seizure of Power"m and T. Childers's "The Nazi Voter". It takes the opinions in these books as a starting point and then develops the author's opinion as to why Hitler came to power. It shows how the reasons behind Hitler's and the German's Socialist Party's (NSDAP) rise to power are many and complex, all involving exploitation of the effects of the Depression on the "ordinary people" and the totalitarian rule with which Hitler took over Germany and held Germany throughout World War II.

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"Through Childers' book, The Nazi Voter (another in-depth statistical treatment of NSDAP party membership), we see that pre-1932, Hitler's NSDAP garnered support from a wide cross-section of German society, from all social levels, and from all sectors of the workforce, but particularly small businessmen, who were suffering the effects of the Depression. He highlights the fact that the wide-ranging support did not include people from the working classes (who preferred communism), but did include people from those sectors of society that were against modernization, and also women, who were in agreement with the Nazi-led denunciation of emancipation. He goes on to say that the Nazi's anti-modernist stance was a fundamental rejection of the socio-political implications of modernization, and as such, this was taken to heart by many members of German society who lived in fear of losing their jobs."

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