HIEU 158 Lecture 5: Jan 22 2019
Document Summary
Hitler"s personality doesn"t really change, but the things around him change. He was a failure before he took power and a failure after wwii. Mein kampf is not a blueprint for the holocaust, but the anti semitism organizes his thinking. Nazi vote totals were down in nov 1932 elections, making his appointment all the more ironic. According to haffner, the weimar republic is basically collapsed by 1932. Power of money from the hugenberg press empire finances the party. The weimar republic thought that they could control the nazis, but they were wrong. Hindenburg was the president of the weimar republic and he handed over the gov to hitler. Not a coup since it was a legal seizure of power. Since the constitution allowed for it, then it wasn"t a coup. Sort of a revolution, but it wasn"t like others. It was a legal transfer of power in a parliamentary system. Establishment supporters and the power of crowds.
