How+Hitler+Gained+Support

__**If Hitler was seen as such an extremist, even by the Germans, why wasn't he removed from his rise to power over Nazi Germany?**__
By:DV-S.O.T.H. and BH S.O.T.H. __**Background information:**__ Adolf Hitler was ashamed of his family line. His dad, Alois Schicklgruber did not know who his father was. There was also a possibility that Hitler's grandfather was Jewish. His father was also very harsh with the way he treated his children, Adolf's older brother Alois Hitler Jr. was beaten and treated so harshly he ran away at the age of 14. Alois Jr. never saw his father again. Adolf was the next oldest kid and therefore received the harsh punishments as his brother. The monastery where Adolf went to school was decorated with swastikas, because the abbots name in German was almost the same as the German word for swastika. Adolf's mother often spoiled him, because he was "quick to anger" and a spoiling him was a easy way to calm him down. I think this lead to Adolf being power hungry and always wanting his way no matter what happened. Written by: BH-S.O.T.H. Source: http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/dmeier/Holocaust/hitler.html

__**Why this question is important in American History:**__ From the perspective of America we need to recognize how and when Adolf Hitler gained support through all of his harsh beliefs and views of the Jewish nationality. This information could help the Government and other organizations to take down rising leaders in countries around the world. Written by: BH-S.O.T.H.

This question is important to Americans because its answer shows how Hitler, and extremist leader, was able to gain control over Germany, and then gain support to try and take over the world. It show how effective propoganda can be when used by an effective person. In this case. it was used to successfully change the thinking of Germany during an economic crisis in their own country, simply because the false messages gave the people hope.

**__Our Answers__**
Hitler came into power of a political party know as the Nazi Socialist workers party. He did not form it originally, but through his ideas and actions, he quickly rose to respect. Many of the people that were part of this party had the same ideas as him. In 1923, Hitler attempted a coup, but he used force to persuade the leaders to support him. This did not work, because as soon as he freed the leaders, they recanted, and sent the local military to arrest him. Egon Larsend was present during the attempted coup, and this is his account: "A look-out man rushed to Hitler, reporting that the storm trooper lorries were just arriving. With a ham-actor's gesture, Hitler swept his beer glass aside, took out his Browning, and signalled the group of men around him to follow him into the hall. These men were a motley crowd. Among them were Hitler's bodyguard, a primitive and brutal butcher's apprentice; his former sergeant in the army; Rudolf Hess, who was to become his second-in-command in the party; 'Putzi' Hanfstaengl, the son of Munich's most famous art publisher, who had studied at Harvard together with F.D. Roosevelt, and who would have felt more comfortable at home playing the piano than handling the pistol that had been pushed into his hand. The planned dramatic effect of the group's march into the hall was somewhat marred by the difficulty of pushing through the perplexed crowd to the platform. Kahr [one of the Bavarian leaders] had stopped speaking, and saw with dismay that a heavy machine-gun was being wheeled into the entrance by uniformed stormtroopers. Some people panicked and tried to leave, but every exit was now guarded, no one was allowed out, and a few who tried were kicked and beaten back. At last Hitler arrived below the platform, grabbed a chair, mounted it, and fired a pistol shot at the ceiling. There was a sudden silence in the hall. He jumped from the chair and leapt up the steps to the platform. A police major, hand in pocket, tried to bar the way. Hitler put his pistol at the officer's head and shouted, 'Take your hand out of your pocket!' The man obeyed. Hitler was now in front of the triumvirate Kahr, Lossow, and Seisser [the three Bavarian leaders]. He turned to the audience and declared in a hoarse, excited voice: 'The national revolution has started. The building is guarded by six hundred heavily armed men. The barracks of the Reichswehr [army forces] and police have been occupied. Reichswehr and police are now on the march under the swastika banner!'" "If I am not victorious by tomorrow, I shall be a dead man." Hitler was bluffing. The Nazis did not have control of the local army nor the police. Hitler forced the three political leaders into a small room behind the stage where he attempted to extort their allegiance to his plot: "The three listened in silence, anxiously watching the excited man with his pistol and the armed guards barring the way out. Hitler ended with the threat: 'Anyone who refuses to collaborate with me has no right to live. I have four bullets in my gun three for my collaborators if they abandon me and the last for myself.' He put the barrel to his temple: 'If I am not victorious by tomorrow, I shall be a dead man.' Kahr was the first to answer. 'You can have me shot or shoot me yourself,' he said calmly, 'or just lock me up. A life more or less makes no difference.' Seisser: 'But Herr Hitler, you promised me a few days ago that you wouldn't stage a putsch!' Hitler: 'Yes, I promised. But I had to do it, for the good of the fatherland.' He called his bodyguard to get him another glass of beer. Suddenly he seemed to get rattled as his prisoners did not declare their enthusiastic allegiance. He jumped up and ran out on to the platform. Here, during the quarter of an hour of his absence, the scene had changed. Hermann Goering, at that time commander of the SA, had arrived, and occupied the deserted speaker's rostrum. He was in full gala uniform, with medals pinned to his chest - awarded to him during the war as a pilot, squadron leader, and eventually commander of Richthofen's famous 'air circus'. He had joined Hitler's party only a year earlier. Goering appeared just in time to tame the three thousand people in the hall who were getting restless, despite the threatening machine-guns and pistols around them. What, they wanted to know, was happening in that back room? 'Don't worry,' Goering told them. 'No harm will come to Herr von Kahr, to Lossow and Seisser. They are holding preliminary discussions for the formation of a national government which all of you want.' 'You don't need machine-guns and hundreds of armed men for that,' cried someone, and there was a roar of applause. 'Shut up!' Goering snarled arrogantly. 'You've got your beer, haven't you?' Now Hitler came dashing back. The excitement in the hall, far from abating, heightened. He seemed to have lost. Again he drew his pistol and fired a shot at the ceiling. 'If you don't keep quiet,' he shouted, 'I'll have another machine-gun put in the gallery!' At last there was silence, and he started anew, calmly and without his usual melodramatic gimmicks. What was happening, he said, was in no way directed against Kahr, who would remain in control of Bavaria. But a new Reichs government had to be formed, with Ludendorff, Lossow, Seisser and himself. 'There are these three men in the back room, wrestling with their conscience,' he said, putting on a touch of emotion. 'Can' I tell them that all of you will be behind them?' 'Ja, ja,' came the thunderous answer. He had succeeded in swinging the mood of the crowd on his side in a matter of minutes - it was a demagogue's masterstroke. 'In a free Germany,' he went on, now with passion, 'there will be a place for an independent Bavaria!' And he ended on his favourite heroic note; here was the man of destiny pleading for the hearts and souls of the people: 'This I can tell you, either the German revolution begins tonight, or we shall all be dead by tomorrow morning.'" After this, Hitler marched on Berlin with a force of 2,000 armed men. He was stopped before he could get there, and was arrested. While in jail, he wrote the Mein Kampf, a book outlining his dreams and beliefs for the Nazi party. He also found planned out how to establish this party in power. When he did get out of jail, he changed his tactics to using the existing government leaders to recognize his new form of government. As the above recollection states, Hitler has the crowd in the beer hall going from anger and noise, to supporting him in just a few minutes difference. This illustrates the main gift of Hitler, the use of propaganda, which is how he swayed the public opinion into supporting him by mixing fact with fiction. By DV-SOTH Source: []

Hitler was introduced to the National Socialist German Worker's Party(NSDAP), hostile commentators later named it the Nazi party, when he was serving as a spy in the military. He answered questions and began talking with the people and quickly caught on to their beliefs. Being the good public speaker that he was the crowd at these meetings were amazed and he became the party's speaker after that. From there his beliefs quickly elevated him to a figure of authority, he was elected leader of the party with goals to take over the government in Germany.

Hitler's revolt to over throw the German government resembled that of Mussolini's march on Rome. It was 1923 and Germany had just reached an economic slump, Hitler saw this as his time to revolt against the government. This first attempt ended in total failure, this march earned Hitler five years in jail. He was treated with leniency and got out of jail with only a nine month sentence. Hitler came to terms with the failure of another march, he realized that a violent revolution would not succeed. Hitler eventually gained public support through propaganda and public speaking. In order for Hitler to win Germany and become the "Fuhrer", he would have to win a huge majority of the public.

After the crash of Wall Street many German's thought of the Nazi party as a reasonable solution. In 1932 the Nazi party had grown to substantial numbers. Hitler ran for president this year, but lost to Hindenburg. Even though Hitler lost the Nazi party showed potential of being elected for a future presidency. Later Hitler became chancellor and immediately called for fresh elections in March. The Nazi party began terrorizing all the other political parties in Germany. Their tactics worked eventually the last party standing was the Nazi party. Now controlling the country the Nazi party took power. Hitler only needed to gain support in the party to become the Fuhrer. By: BH-SOTH

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