How did Hitler rise to power

The research question of the investigation is “How did Hitler rise to power?”. After World War One, the Treaty of Versailles was signed. Many Germans weren’t happy about it, including Adolf Hitler.In this investigation I’ll evaluate the following sources. The 1920s, A group research projects of college students who researched about different point of view on the rise of Hitler. This project gave two different points of view of how Hitler rose into power.

The second source is a book of how Adolf Hitler rose into power, The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler, by William L.

Shirer. It gives information on his early life and when he started to get into politics.

A value of the origin of the group research project is that the people who were in the group project were college students in their third year in their majors. A value of the purpose is that it gives two point of views on how Hitler rose into power. It also gives information about what the Treaty of Versailles is. A value of the content is that it gives two perspective of how Hitler rose into power. It goes in depth how he did it. For example, talking about the economic problem and how it played into how he rose into power. A limitation of the origin is that the people who created this are college students. Although they did do their research, they might have left a couple things out. A limitation of the purpose is that this is a research project.

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There aren’t any limitation of the content that can be found. There wasn’t any limitation that can be founded since it gives both perspective on how Hitler rose into power and it clearly gives the purpose of why it is created.

A value of the origin of the book is that it was written by William L. Shirer, an American journalist and war correspondent. It was published in 1961 which was about 20 years after World War 2. The value of the purpose is that it is for educational purposes. Another value of the purpose is that it is written to show students or people who is Adolf Hitler. A value of the content is that it it is about Adolf Hitler. It shows who he was before he got into politics and when he became Fuhrer of Germany. The limitation of the origin is that William L. Shirer is an American. He can possibly left out some information in the book. There are no limitation of the purpose. The limitation of the content is that it does not give the other side’s perspective on how Adolf Hitler came to power.

Introduction

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was born on April 20, 1889, in the Upper Austrian border town Braunau am Inn. Adolf Hitler was the leader of Germany from 1934-1945. Adolf Hitler served as a dictator and leader of the Nazi Party, or National Socialist German Workers Party during his time in power. He made fascist plans that drove to World War 2 and the death of about 11 million, including massacre of an approximate number of 6 million Jews. This essay is an investigation about how a man who struggled at a young age became a powerful leader of a country and what other reasons drove him to become a leader.

Before Hitler’s Time as Leader

Before his time as a leader, Hitler lived in Austria and then later in February 1908, Adolf Hitler moved to Vienna. He worked as a casual laborer and watercolor painter. “He set his sights on a career in art and hoped to gain admission to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna” (Shirer, 1984). Adolf Hitler was denied twice when applying for the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . In May 1913, Adolf Hitler moved to Munich. Hitler was lacking money and was going through his day by selling postcards and staying in homeless shelters. He petitioned King Ludwig the third if he can serve in the army. He was accepted in August 1914, though he was still an Austrian citizen. “Like millions of Germans, Adolf Hitler proved to be a brave and courageous soldier” (Shirer, 1984). In 1916, he was decorated the Iron Cross second class and later Iron Cross first class two years later for bravery. Like many other Germans, Adolf Hitler weren’t happy about it and found it unfair. The Treaty of Versailles is a peace document signed at the end of World War One by the Allied forces (France, Russia, Italy, and the United States) and associated powers and Germany. The Treaty of Versailles was signed in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, which was located in France, on June 28, 1919. It took effect on January 10, 1920. The treaty was drafted during the Paris Peace Conference in the spring of 1919; Britain, France, United States, and Italy made most or all of the decision in the treaty. Germany and other defeated nations had nothing or participation in making the treaty. In the treaty, Germany’s population dropped to about 10 percent. Alsace and Lorraine were returned to France. The war guilt clause of the treaty held Germany to be at fault for World War One and for making compensations to the allied nations in payment for the losses and damage they had sustained in the war. The Big Four, such as Italian Prime Minister, Vittorio Orlando, Prime Minister or Britain, David Lloyd George, US 28th president, Woodrow Wilson, and French Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau wanted Germany to not pose as a military threat to the rest of Europe. Germany’s army were restricted to 100,000 men. The Treaty of Versailles were criticized by Germans badly. They complained that it was mainly aim towards them and that it violated the spirit of the Fourteen Points. “Over the next three weeks, the Germans barraged Clemenceau, Wilson, and Lloyd George with notes protesting most of the treaty’s provisions, from the occupation of the Rhineland to the loss of Baltic port of Memel (which eventually went to Lithuania)” (Slavicek 2010). A year after it was revised mostly in Germany’s favour.

Economic Crisis

Resources were reverted to the war. The terms of the Treaty of Versailles required Germany to pay huge amount in reparations to the Allies. Germany printed more money to pay workers who were on strikes in 1923. In doing so, the outcome was hyperinflation and erased the value of savings. The government was spending about 20.5 percent each citizen in 1913; by 1925 it had risen to almost 65 marks per resident and it raised again by 1929. In 1921, this amount was set at £6.6 billion; a sum that Germany could not pay. Germany began printing exaggerated amounts of money. Germany was threw into a state of hyperinflation which reached to the point where millions of marks were worthless.

Hitler was angry about the Treaty of Versailles and how Germany surrendered in 1918. Hitler strongly believed that Jewish people had betrayed them during the war. The Versailles Treaty was hated by Germans and looked at the signing of the treaty on June 28 as a day of shame for Germany. Hitler argued that the Versailles Treaty had to be be destroy for Germany to get its greatness back. Hitler’s popularity was due to his direct criticized of the treaty. The economic crisis of Germany was partly due to the Treaty of Versailles. The economic crisis was another factor how Adolf Hitler gain supporters.

Charisma Leadership

Another factor that helped him helped him become a leader was his charismatic leadership.In May–June 1919, Hitler took up political services. In September 1919, Hitler attended a meeting of the Germans Workers’ Party, a nationalist, anti-Semitic, and socialist group. In 1920, when he was put in charge of the party’s propaganda, Adolf Hitler depart from the army to commit on polishing his position within the party, the party was later renamed to the National-Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi). He quickly became the most popular and impressive talker and propagandist in a party called German Workers’ party. In April of 1921, Hitler became Fuhrer of the National Socialist German Workers’ party. By the end of 1923, Hitler’s members and supporters were more than 50,000. Hitler’s movement and party rose rapidly due to the economic depression. People also followed Hitler because of how he can connect with them in many ways. For example, he connects with their fears and desires. Elections of September 1930, the Nazis polled almost 6.5 million votes and increased their parliamentary representation from 12 to 107. Spring of 1932, Hitler ran second to the popular World War I hero Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg in the election. When it became clear that the Nazis will not secure a majority in democratic elections since they only had about 33% of the vote, Adolf Hitler agrees to a coalition with conservatives. After many months of discussing with President Paul von Hindenburg, he appointed Hitler chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1934. Hitler became officially Führer of Germany and head of state as well as commander in chief of the armed forces after President Hindenburg died on August 1934.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Hitler rose to power in many ways. For example, he rose into power because of the Treaty of Versailles and economic problems in Germany after World War One. Although those reasons did play into how he rose to power, the main reason that he was able to quickly rise into power was his charismatic leadership. He was able to play his cards right and manage to pull people in by being able to connect with them. This then led him to become the Führer of Germany in 1933. The time I spent on this investigation, I stumbled upon some challenges that historians experienced. Among the challenges that I faced were having to look through many sources. There were many times where I have to go find the right source to get the correct information. I have a fair amount of both primary source and secondary source. The limitation of this method was that some were more reliable than others but since it was on the same topic, the information that I got were mainly the same.

To determine the truth of the source, I find different sources to see if which part of the information is being mention the most. Looking at different sources and looking at the site is how I evaluate my sources. I determine when I had enough sources to answer my question is when the sources I have shows when and how Adolf Hitler came to power. The perspective that dominates the most in the sources was Adolf Hitler’s charismatic leadership. The reason was that there wasn’t really other perspective of how Adolf Hitler came into power. For example, on my first source that I evaluated, it gave two portrayals of how Hitler rose to power. One way was the Versailles Treaty and economic factors and the other was military reasons. Even though it gave two perspective it didn’t talk much about the military reasons. All other sources were mainly about the Versailles Treaty and economic facts and also his charismatic leadership.

My topic is historically significant because it helps remind people or the public to avoid having the same conflict or repeating the same thing from happening again. I think that the present day values impact the way we view historical event is by teachers teaching the events to student in class. Lessons can be drawn from historical events; it teaches both students who aren’t into politics and students that are into politics to not repeat the same mistakes as before. It also teaches people how things in the present came to be. I believe that it is impossible to describe historical events without being biased. I believe that it is impossible is because every historical events have their own side of the story in my opinion. The role of a historian is to tell history in the correct way possible. The terms like atrocity should only be use when it is appropriate. Only the least biased proof in history can be acceptable even though it is difficult to be unbiased. I believe that historians should aim to inform because history should never be altered and always be correct. Overall, this investigation helped me see how many sources historians have to go through to get the right information and a concrete argument in an investigation.