What Was Hitler's Economic Depression

In this essay I will argue that the economic depression got the Nazis to a powerful position in the Reichstag, however when the economic depression declined the amount of votes that the Nazis obtained also decreased in the Reichstag elections. Therefore the economic depression did not make Adolf Hitler Chancellor but other main factors including the oratory skills of Hitler, the propaganda campaign of Goebbels and the fact that Hindenburg and Von Papen thought that they could control Hitler once he was Chancellor. The smaller extreme parties also would not work together although combined they could have had more support than the Nazis. The Treaty of Versailles also contributed to Hitler’s rise to power as the German people were still angry
The Germans however could not pay the full reparations to France in 1923, so the French invaded the Ruhr which was rich in natural resources; this therefore caused the government to print money to support the strikers, which led to hyperinflation so the currency collapsed and many Germans resorted to bartering. In 1924 Stresemann brought in the Dawes Plan with the help of an 800 million gold mark loan to help kick-start the economy, however this made the German economy completely dependent on loans from America. So when the Wall Street Crash happened in 1929 it caused the economic depression in Germany which created poverty and unemployment and allowed the Nazi party to rise up the ranks as the people were angry at the Weimar Republic. In 1923 there was also the Munich Putsch where Hitler tried to seize power in Bavaria however the Nazis were defeated and sixteen were killed. This event however earned Hitler a lot of publicity as Hitler said ‘History will tear to tatters the verdict of this court’ and his trial was given national publicity in the newspapers which earned Hitler sympathy from the German people. The most significant thing about the failed Munich Putsch was that it convinced Hitler to change tactics and not take power through violence but through politics and by winning
Hitler made people stop thinking logically but emote which created a better atmosphere at the speech as he took advantage of the situation and talked about the economic depression and unemployment which made people angry. At the time the people were willing to accept anything after so many years of depression so Hitler promised to reduce the amount of unemployment and he promised to increase the average pension which made him extremely popular amongst the masses. The propaganda campaign of Goebbels was created in order to persuade the German people of the benefits of Nazi rule. The Nazis were working full capacity to spread their message as Hitler believed that if you have the mind of the people then you will obtain power. This is portrayed by Goebbels stating that ‘the essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.’ This is how the Nazis drew in the German people with magnificent displays and then the people were hooked, with more spectacles that confirmed the strength of the Nazi party. The Nazis indulged in pageantry and spectacle and held torch lit parades and mass rallies which portrayed the Party as strong so people started to follow along with Nazi ideals. Thousands of posters, broadsheets and