HIS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Arson, Chief Operating Officer
6 Feb 2018
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How did hitler put this into practice? comes out of jail, wants to take power, but a coo is not the best way. Builds up membership with german community and gather recruits. Focuses on how badly germany was treated with tov. Great depression begins, spreads to europe, hits germany first and hardest. German chancellor reacts badly, makes things worse, believed it was a temp. Proposed a customs union with austria (free trade) (france and brit veto the idea, as unions between germany and. Hitler uses the great depression and the discontent in germany to come to power. Powerful allies in german military and economic elites. 1930,1933 elections nazi party gain seats in the reichstag. The most powerful political actor in german parliament. 1933 president von hindenburg asks hitler to become the chancellor and form the government. 1933, reichstag catches fire (arson by dutch communist) Can now rule and suspend all liberal democratic rights held in the weimar institution.
