Hitler Becoming Chancellor

Question 1

Depression/economic climate

Answer 1

• unemployment at 6 million in 1932
• Great Depression after Wall Street crash
• banking crisis worsening after brunnings wages cut
• Hitler tailored propaganda to meet audiences needs, took advantage of the situation to promise brighter future

Question 2

Backstairs intrigue

Answer 2

• Hindenburg won 1932 election ahead of Hitler
• Papen and Oskar hindenburg persuaded Hindenburg to make Hitler chancellor as thought he could beeasily controlled
• could push their policies about governing germany through him
• final decision lay with president

Question 3

Growing Nazi support

Answer 3

• skillful propaganda targeted at audiences, powerful and persuasive speeches
• played on peoples empotions
• ensured elites their businesses would not be harmed to gain funding and support
• Joseph Goebbels head of propaganda

Question 4

Franz von Papen

Answer 4

• establishment of a ‘government of national concentration’, known as ‘cabinet of barons’, consisted of unelected figures from the landowning and industrial elite. Further key step away from Weimar democracy + nearer to authoritarian gov which hitler offering
• lifted ban on SA in June 1932 = further restriction on left-wing press, gave the nazis impetus to take on the communists in street run-up to July 1932 election
• Behind destruction of the SPD-led Prussian state government + declaring a state of emergency in July 1932.
• Made himself Reich Comissioner and further weakened Germany democracy and authortarian direction

Question 5

Backstairs intrigue detail

Answer 5

• Hindenburg won 1932 election ahead of Hitler
• Agrarian Bolshevism is introduced by bruning and its very unpopular with junkers. Leads to bruning being replaced with von Papen
• July 1932 Nazis biggest party - Papen asks Hitler to become vice-chancellor but Hitler refuses
• nov 1932 Nazis still biggest party, Papen struggling
• Hindenburg replaces Papen with Schleicher (schleicher consulted Hindenburg about papers failures)
• Schleicher fails to get Hitler on their side
• Papen convinces Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as chancellor and him as vice-chancellor
• Papen says he can control Hitler and get rid of him once economic crisis is over.
• Hitler becomes chancellor 30th Jan 1933

Question 6

Wall Street crash 1929

Answer 6

• badly affected by dependence on American loans from 1924 onwards
• Investment in business was reduced.
• wages fell by 39% from 1929 to 1932. People in full time employment fell from twenty million in 1929, to just over eleven million in 1933.
• The Depression associated economic failure and a decline in living standards with the Weimar democracy. When combined with the resulting political instability, it left people feeling disillusioned with the Weimar Republic’s democracy and looking for change.
  This enhanced the attractiveness of hitler propaganda