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In January 1933 the Nazis came to power, led by Adolf Hitler. In the consequent years, Hitler managed to rebuild Germany, and start off another World War, slaughtering millions of innocent people. Hitler was a determined man, and he managed to win the support of millions of German people, thus securing power destroying democracy and establishing a dictatorship in the process. How did he do this?

In 1929 the American stock market crashed and sent the USA and consequently the rest of the world into an economic slump. As the American's economy was so important and great, as soon as they were hit be the crash, the other countries around the world began to feel its effects. Germany was especially badly hit, as the borrowed money which had helped stabilize Germany's situation had to be given back to the American businessman, as now they needed the money. Germany's economy collapsed businesses went bankrupt, workers were then laid off and so unemployment soared. The depression hit Germany very hard, as the loans which they had depended on has gone, and yet they still had to pay reparations to the Allies.

The Nazi ideas were now recognised more by the German people. Germans felt that the Weimar Constitution was incompetent and indecisive and so word of the Nazis spread and now people decided to listen to their extremist ideas, as now everyone was unemployed, they turned to extremist parties to solve their problems. The Nazi's Twenty-Five Points became very appealing to those now unemployed, the elderly and the middle classes. It was the middle classes who gave Hitler the most support, as they were in total despair. In 1923 the middle classes were hit hard by hyperinflation, and those who managed to survive or just scrape by were then hit by the depression. This infuriated the middle classes, and they began to get attracted by the Nazi ideas, and so Nazi support rose. The depression made many people support the Nazis, as they were fed up with how poorly Weimar was dealing with the problems. The impact of the depression made many people support the Nazis. The Nazis managed to succeed in elections and were well-known by the 1930s, partly due to the election in 1932, in which the Nazis got nearly 200 seats, making them the largest single party. The 1932 election got Hitler noticed, partly as he had been flying around Germany to many rallies, campaigning for people to vote for him. This was a new idea, as leaders just didn't fly around giving speeches it made Hitler very

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