Hitler+and+the+Nazis+Take+Power+in+Germany

media type="custom" key="2971162"The Hunter Uebel uamaster97@gmail.com Login name: uamaster97@gmail.com Jeremy Ritgert jbritgert@comcast.net Alec Roskowinski ajrosko@yahoo.com, login name: ajrosko@yahoo.com

__Hitler and the Nazis Take Power in Germany__
 * Germany was in a economic slope or bankruptcy. They needed to find a ruler to help them get them out of it.
 * So they chose Hitler.- http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p299_Degrelle.html
 * He had been kept waiting while Hitler and conservative leader Alfred Hugenberg argued over Hitler's demand for new elections.
 * Then adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
 * Now, the man who had spent his entire political career denouncing and attempting to destroy the republic, was its leader. Around noon on January 30, Hitler was sworn in.
 * "I will employ my strength for the welfare of the German people, protect the Constitution and laws of the German people, conscientiously discharge the duties imposed on me, and conduct my affairs of office impartially and with justice to everyone." //-// the oath taken by Adolf Hitler.
 * But by this time, that oath had been repeatedly broken by previous chancellors out of desperation and also out of personal ambition.
 * Franz von Papen was vice Chancellor and was the reason why Hitler had been elected. Since, the chancellor before him said that he will only becoome chancellor if he has Franz von Papen as vice chancellor.
 * This was another way to keep Hitler in check. In fact, Papen had every intention of using the conservative majority in the cabinet along with his own political skills to run the government himself. http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch16.htm

//__The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions__, Goldstone, Jack A., 1998 Congressional Quarterly Inc.//
 * Jeremy Ritgert**
 * highly decorated soldier in WWI
 * after the German defeat in WWI he joined the Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party)
 * wanted to create a perfect race of people that were biologically pure that would enslave the rest of the world
 * Jews were seen as most threatening race to Nazi cause and were persecuted by the party
 * wanted to rally support for the cause of the Nazi party
 * idea of Nazi party was to end democracy
 * attempted a coup against the German gov. but was suppressed and sent to prison where he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
 * He dreamed of gov that resembled Mussolini'sfascism that promised to end the alienation, class-based disputes, and corruption of capitalist democracy
 * After he was released from prison, he recruited more members for the Nazi party
 * party gained strength in the years of the great depression
 * in 1933 he became chancellor of Germany
 * while chancellor he ended democracy and declared himself furher (leader)
 * he then succeeded in restabilizing Germany
 * then set out to exterminate all racially inferior people (jews, feeble minded, and homosexuals) in concentration camps
 * in 1939, he started WWII and then his plan to eliminate all unoure races hit full force and his troops killed tens of millions of unclean races
 * he survived an attempted assination by his own officers in 1944
 * after realizing there was no way he could win the war he committed suicide but still urged the world to kill all jews


 * one of the main reasons for the start of the Nazi party was the Treaty of Versailles



http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/dmeier/Holocaust/hitler.html  · awarded two Iron Crosses for bravery in WWI and rose to the rank of lance corporal  · Germany was in an economic disorder to reparations for WWI  · Hitler’s scape-goating of the Jews for inflation, political instability, unemployment, and the humiliation in the war, found a willing audience  · Nazi party began drawing thousands of new members, many of whom were victims of hyper-inflation and found comfort in blaming the Jews for this trouble  · Using demagogic oratory, Hitler spoke to scores of mass audiences, calling for the German people to resist the yoke of Jews and Communists, and to create a new empire which would rule the world for 1,000 years.  · he led 2,000 armed "brown-shirts" in an attempt to take over the Bavarian government but the revolt was suppressed  · Hitler was convicted but sentenced to a term of only five years imprisonment at Landsberg where he would remain only 8 months.  · Hitler decided to enter a coalition government as chancellor in January 1933.  · Upon the death of the President Hindenburg in August 1934, Hitler was the consensus successor  · Reichstag building was partially destroyed by fire, Hitler blamed it on Communists  · Nazi’s harassed political opponents—won 288 seats in the Reichstag. With the support of their conservative nationalist allies, who held 52 seats, the Nazis controlled a majority of the 647 member Reichstag  · On March 23, 1933, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which gave dictatorial authority to Hitler's cabinet for four years 
 * Alec Roskowinski**