Reich Chancellor Hitler planned to use President Hindenburg's death as an opportunity to seize total power in Germany by elevating himself to the position of Führer, or absolute leader, of the German nation and its people. On August 2, 1934, at 9 a.m., the long awaited death of 87 yea...
On January 30, 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. The year 1932 had seen Hitler’s meteoric rise to prominence in Germany, sp
In the absence of a majority government, Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor in January 1933. As Chancellor, Hitler suspended civil liberties in February after a fire in the Reichstag, of which a communist was accused. Having gained a majority in the Reichstag in March, the Nazi party wer...
And on 30 January 1933, President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor. Hindenburg and the others who had allied with him though they could control him. That would prove to be a disastrous miscalculation on their part. Hitler moved quickly to solidify the power of the Nazi party. While ...
Note:This election took place only partially free during Hitler’s term as Chancellor of Germany. Brüning Administration and the Great Depression: Heinrich Brüning’s Chancellorship:Heinrich Brüning, a member of the Centre Party, served as the Chancellor of Germany during a challenging period. The...
With growing nationalism, Hitler’s Nazi Party won 37% of the vote in the 1932 German elections, and he became Chancellor of Germany shortly after. Soon after his appointment, Hitler began installing a fascist government, and eventually became dictator of Germany, modeled after his long-time ...
In his last will and testament, Hitler appointed Admiral Karl Donitz as head of state and Goebbels as chancellor. He then retired to his private quarters with Braun, where he and Braun poisoned themselves and their dogs, before Hitler then also shot himself with his service pistol. Hitler and...
Adolf Hitler was the chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Hitler greatly contributed to the Nazi’s rise to power and also believed all of Germany’s problems were caused by the Jews, resulting in Kristallnacht. The three major events that were the most significant in Hitler’s leadership...
Hitler was able to slowly gain more and more power until he eventually was appointed Chancellor of Germany. The beginning of Hitler’s rise to power started when he joined the “Deutsche Arbeiterpartei,” or the German Worker’s Party, in 1919 when he was just twenty years of age. In th...
The negotiations were conducted in secret by Pacelli, Kaas, and Hitler's deputy chancellor, Franz von Papen, over the heads of German bishops and the faithful. The Catholic Church in Germany had no say in setting the conditions.In the end, Hitler insisted that his signature on the concordat...