Help with history essay about nazi Germany?

Question

I have an essay I have to write tomorrow with the prompt being "Adolf Hitler was the sole cause of the end of democracy and the rise of fascism after WWI" then my question is "argue for and/or against this proposition with reference to the role and impact of significant individuals and groups in Weimar and nazi Germany. I am going to talk about Hitler in my first paragraph but am not sure who to choose for my second and third paragraph, I can choose out of the following people: gustav stresemann, president Paul von hindenburg, leni riefenstahl, Alfred Krupp, Joseph goebbels, Hermann göring, Albert Speer, frederich ebert, heinrich himmler, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz von papen, general Kurt von schleicher, the freikorps, the einsatzgruppen, the gestapo, Hitler juden, the NSDAP, the SA, the SS, the SPD and the spartacus league. Thank you for any answers and could you also tell me a little bit about why those two people led to the fall of democracy and rise of fascism

Answer 1

Um, darling, I think you mean "Hitler Jugend" (Hitler Youth). "Hitler Juden" would mean "Hitler Jews," which I don't think is what you intended.



Also, it's the Spartacist League, not Spartacus.



And you're going to have a really hard time fitting all the responsibility for those events into just two or three paragraphs. Historian Ian Kershaw, in his biography of Hitler, required several dozen pages to give an overview of all the complicated machinations among many many people and groups that eventually led to the Nazi seizure of power. If you have to pick just a couple, though, Papen and HIndenburg were certainly among the most culpable.

Answer 2

Adolph Hitler may have been the organizing agent, the driving force, but if all the other parts of the equation weren't in place he would have been marginalized, a crackpot in a small minor party that spent most of his life poor and in jail. Case in point if Hitler had been born in the U.S. or Great Britain he would have been simply a footnote to history. What gave Hitler the material to work with is that Germany/Prussia for centuries had been an ultra conservative militarist state, an army with a country not vice versa. 3/4 of the Prussian Government Budget was devoted to the military. For hundreds of years germans were taught from birth that their portion in life was obedience. When Germany lost WWI the Weimar government was made to take the blame for he surrender even though it was the military that had led the country to the brink of destruction all by themselves, this alone put a huge unnecessary burden for them to carry. Second they never made a total house cleaning. They didn't completely force out the monarchist in the military whose loyalty was to the Emperor and replaced them with people they themselve appointed. They also didn't take on the Junkers Aristocracy and the rest of the conservative click that controlled the wealth and virtually all of the upper civil service, financial and judicial arms in the country. Hitler came to power because all these conservative entities sought to destroy the Weimar Republic, and restore the Monarchy. They essentially saw Hitler as a means to bring this about. Hitler simply cashed in on this, this was what brought him to power

Answer 3

A little over a month after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 the first concentration camp, Dachau, was established in Germany under the guidance of Heinrich Himmler. It was originally built to hold political opponents of Hitler and the Nazis. The first people sent to Dachau were German Social Democrats and other political prisoners. It wasn't until years later that Jews were sent to Dachau also.

Answer 4

A central point of your essay should be the Enabling Act of 1933, where the Reichstag basically voted to make Hitler a dictator. Research that and how it came about along with Hitler's rise to power in general.



My might also reference Benito Mussolini, who rose to power first and Hitler admired. He was really the first major fascist dictator in Europe after WWI.

Answer 5

As the NSDAP,the party led by hitler,gained almost 40% of the popular vote in the 1932 Reichstag elections,it seems obvious that Hitler was not the only person in Germany wanting the end of the democracy in the style of the Weimar republic.

Answer 6

No! Communism, in practice, required suspension of democracy to work, such as when Lenin had to silence his opposition after only 1 election. Naziism, and to a lesser extent fascism, were a combination of nationalistic sentiments and anti-communist reaction.

Answer 7

Adolf Hitler was not the sole cause for the end of democracy nor the rise of fascism. People were disillusioned with democracy as they saw it in which as we see today the rich's wealth increases while everyone else's decreases. Goebbels and Himmler for the other two paragraphs.

Answer 8

http://listverse.com/2010/08/22/top-15-most-evil-nazis/

Answer 9

Must Include these



http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas1.htm



https://www.google.de/#q=http:%2F%2Freformed-theology.org%2Fhtml%2Fbooks%2Fwall_street%2Fchapter_04.htm



http://orientalreview.org/2010/10/06/episodes-5-who-paid-for-world-war-ii/



https://www.google.de/#q=americans+who+funded+the+nazis+



https://www.google.de/#q=americans+who+funded++hitler



this tells the Truth the USA caused WW2 because they wanted Hitler to Go to war with the Communists and Paid him to do it



30 Billion is enough to start a war today

Answer 10

If Hitler was the sole reason how do you explain Benito Mussolini?

Answer 11

same answer as sirbobby.

Answer 12

same as anyonomous.

Answer 13

hitler should nuke usa