Essay: Nazi party rise to power

Few would have thought that the Nazi party, starting as a gang of unemployed soldiers after World War 1, would become the legal government of Germany by 1933. In fourteen years, a once obscure corporal, Adolf Hitler, would become the Chancellor of Germany. World War 1 ended with a total of 37 million casualties and 9 million dead combatants. German propaganda had not prepared the nation to lose the war, resulting in a sense of injured German National pride. Those political and military leaders who were responsible claimed that Germany had been “ stabbed in the back” by Jews and the Communists. When a new government, the Weimar Republic, had tried to establish a democratic course. Extreme political parties from both the left and the right struggled violently for control. The regime could neither handle the economy nor the rampart lawlessness and disorder.
In 1919, Adolf Hitler ( who was a army veteran ) was frustrated by how Germany was made to sign the treaty of Versailles which was their defeat in world war 1. This led to the nation to be politically unstable and economically depressed. Hitler joined a political organisation called German Workers’ Party. This was founded earlier that same year by a small group of men. This party prompted German nationalism and anti-Semitism, and they felt that the a Treaty of Versailles, the peace settlement that ended the war, was unjust to Germany by burdening it with reparations that they would never be able to pay.
Adolf Hitler soon emerged as a public speaker and began attracting new members with speeches that blamed the Jews and Marxists for Germany’s problems and supporting extreme nationalism and the concept of a “master race” or an Aryan. In July 1921, Hitler took leadership of the organisation, which by the had been renamed the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ to the Nazi party.
Through the 1920s, Hitler gave speech after speech about rampant inflation, unemployment, economic stagnation and hunger in postwar Germany would continue until there was a total revolution in German life. Most problems could be solved, Hitler explained, if Jews and communists were driven out of the nation. Hitlers fiery speeches swelled the ranks of the Nazi party, especially among the young, economically disadvantaged Germans. In 1923, Adolf Hitler and his followers stages the beer hall putsch in Munich, a failed takeover of the government in Bavaria, a states in the southern part of Germany. Hitler had hoped that the “putsch” or coup d’état, would spark a larger revolution against the national government. The aftermath of the Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler was convicted of treason and sentenced to five years in jail, but spent a lot less then that only spending a year behind bars. The publicity surrounding the beer hall and Adolf’s subsequent trial turned him into a national figure. After Hitler was released from prison. He set about rebuilding the Nazis and attempting to regain power and strength through election.
In 1929, Germany entered a period of severe  widespread unemployment and economic depression. The Nazi party capitalised on the situation by criticising the ruling government and began to win the elections. In the July of 1932 elections, the captured 230 out of 608 seats in the German parliament. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed the German chancellor and Hitlers, Nazi government soon came to control every aspect of German life. Under Nazi rule, all other political parties were banned. In 1933, the Nazis opened up the first concentration camp, in Dachau, Germany to house political prisoners. Dachau evolves into a death camp where countless of Jews died from malnutrition, overwork, disease or were executed. In addition to Jews, the camps prisoners included members of other groups that Hitler considered unfit for the new Germany, including intellectuals, gypsies, artists, mentally and physically handicapped and homosexuals.
Once Adolf Hitler gained control of the government, he directed Nazi Germany’s foreign policy towards undoing the Treaty of Versailles and restoring Germany’s standing in the world. He railed against the treaty’s redrawn mal of Europe and argued that it denied Germany, Europe’s most populous state for its growing population. Although the treaty was explicitly based on the principle of self-determination of people’s, he pointed out that it had separated Germans from Germans by creating such new postwar states as Austria and Czechoslovakia, where many Germans lived