The Nazi capture of power has come to occupy a rather peculiar position in the history of Germany. This significance rests more on what happened after 1933 when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi group lead the greatest mass movement with the broadest popular appeal that Germany had ever seen. The persecution of Jews, the downfall of the Weimar Republic and the appeal to the public of Germany through propaganda has jet packed the Nazis and Hitler to power through the themes of war, racism, anti-Semitism, violence and order explains and demonstrates how the Nazis rose to power.
The movement originated with the German Workers Party DAP but shortly changed their name after Adolf Hitler joined in 1919 (and was made party leader in 1921) to National Socialist
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They sought this through appealing directly to the interests of each class and sector within the electorate, effective propaganda which promised as many forms of recovery and regeneration as there were needs and hopes for them (Bessel, 2004). Adolf Hitler becoming chancellor on the 30th of January and the idea that Hitler came to power as a result it seemed more so a handing over of power to Adolf Hitler then a takeover. As soon as Hitler was appointment he requested certain laws which provided him with power in the Reichstag beginning with the increased amount of seats in NSDAP which went from 196 to 288 seats. He then went on to change the constitution through two measures in March 1933. KPD deputies..... had an alleged implication in the Reichstag fire and Hitler leant on this knowledge to prevent them from assuming their seats this allowed Hitler to gain more power within the government. The other was to guarantee catholic liberties in exchange for any member of the centre party opposed to Hitler’s measures (Bessel, 2004). This extended Hitler’s already considerable powers and by May 1940 the trade union movement was replaced by the Nazi organised German Labour front and in June Reichstag was effectively cleaned out by banning all political parties other than