In 1889 a boy name Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria.
The boy wanted to become a great painter, but despite his efforts, he received little to no recognition from his peers, and ended up living in poverty in Vienna.
As a man of German descent, he came to dislike Austria referring to it as a “patchwork nation” for it had various ethnic groups.
He later moved to the German city of Munich.
He drifted from place to place for a while until he eventually joins in WWI as a military intelligence officer.
Hitler was recovering from a mustard gas attack that left him temporarily blind in a military hospital when Germany surrendered 1918.
During his time as a military intelligence officer, he observed the activities of the German …show more content…
The smaller parties started to turn to the Nazis to repel the Communists.
In the election of 1932 the Nazis won 37 percent of total votes. They became the largest solo-party in the Reichstag.
Hitler demanded to become the Chancellor, but President Hindenburg made Franz von Papen the Chancellor instead.
Von Papen was soon replaced by General Kurt von Schleicher.
Desirous to regain power, von Papen made a deal with to make Hitler Chancellor, with himself as Vice-Chancellor.
The moderate parties would hold all government posts except for three, these three would go to the Nazis; one of these would be Hitler being Chancellor.
The elderly President Hindenburg was worried for the government was not stable, so in an act of desperation he agreed to it.
So on January 30th, 1933, Hitler became Germany’s Chancellor.
However Hindenburg underestimated Hitler’s capabilities as a political leader, for his first act as chancellor was to use the burning of the Reichstag building as a way for calling elections.
The Police working for Hermann Goering (A German politician), suppressed the Nazis’ opposition before the election