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Please explain Nazism and the rise of Hitler as a brief summary.I really need it because we have our exams from the 2nd of August. Please  answer this question.

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ASHLEY KANNAN | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR

I am not sure any brief summary can be offered on such a topic.  There is much to be discussed with it and there are so many divergent vantage points that one can take on it.  In my mind, the rise of Hitler can be tied into German disenchantment and despair that followed World War I.  As previously stated, the harsh conditions of the Treaty of Versailles made life so difficult for the Germans that there was a level of disengagement with the current political system.  The situation was ripe enough for an outsider with a vision to enter and capture the political and moral imagination of the German body politic.  Hitler entered this setting with a complete and totalizing view that emphasized a strong German future.  He was able to do this because of the employment of the politics of blame.  Hitler was able to blame the Western European nations for German problems as evidenced in the Treaty and his perception of a long standing envy of the German nation.  Hitler was able to blame the Jewish individuals of the nation for holding jobs and positions that "pure Germans" did not.  Hitler was able to blame everyone that was not a part of his party and his belief system and this worked extremely well.  Germany, as a whole, was not in the position nor the frame of reference to engage in honest and open self reflection.  The politics of blame worked as a better substitute for the German people of the time, which was proven with Hitler's steady and consistent rise to power.

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Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in Germanyin September 1919 when Hitler joined the political party known as the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei – DAP (German Workers' Party). The name was changed in 1920 to the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei – NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party). This political party was formed and developed during the post-World War I era. It was anti-Marxist and opposed to the democratic post-war government of the Weimar Republic and the Treaty of Versailles; and it advocated extreme nationalism and Pan-Germanism as well as virulent anti-Semitism. Hitler's "rise" can be considered to have ended in March 1933, after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in that month. President Paul von Hindenburghad already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. The Enabling Act—when used ruthlessly and with authority—virtually assured that Hitler could thereafter constitutionally exercise dictatorial power without legal objection.

Adolf Hitler rose to a place of prominence in the early years of the party. Being one of the best speakers of the party, he told the other members to either make him leader of the party or he would never return. He was aided in part by his willingness to use violence in advancing his political objectives and to recruit party members who were willing to do the same. The Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923 and the later release of his book Mein Kampf (Translation: My Struggle) introduced Hitler to a wider audience. In the mid-1920s, the party engaged in electoral battles in which Hitler participated as a speaker and organizer,[a] as well as in street battles and violence between the Rotfrontkämpferbundand the Nazis' Sturmabteilung (SA). Through the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Nazis gathered enough electoral support to become the largest political party in the Reichstag, and Hitler's blend of political acuity, deceptiveness and cunning converted the party's non-majority but plurality status into effective governing power in the ailing Weimar Republic of 1933.