How the heck did Hitler come to power?

[Servinta]

Hitler was elected democratically because he had promised to bring a war ravaged and economically downtrodden Germany up from the ashes and put it back on the map as a superpower that would rival the ones that destroyed it in WW1.

Which he did all that he promised and was even featured on Time magazine because of his success as a politician in making his country great again.

[Laerod]

Hitler was elected democratically because he had promised to bring a war ravaged and economically downtrodden Germany up from the ashes and put it back on the map as a superpower that would rival the ones that destroyed it in WW1.

Which he did all that he promised and was even featured on Time magazine because of his success as a politician in making his country great again.

Do not spread lies about Hitler and Germany. Spreading lies about Hitler and Germany is bad.

[Skinia]

Populism.

[-Shie-]

...Sir, are you a banana?

Damnit! I knew something was different about me.

A Rule of thumb: The less a man looks like Chris Hemsworth or Liam Hemsworth, the less of a chance he has to be a successful hollywood actor.

There's a reason why Luke Hemsworth, the shortest brother with the bulging eyes, is not a Hollywood actor. That reason is his physical appearance.


For example, Ashton Kutcher and his brother. One became a Hollywood actor and the other one...

[Korintar]

People like Hitler or Mussolini were pretty much going to come to power at some point in Europe after WWI. It was just a matter of who and where. While the exact actors might not have been the same, and there need not have been something as large scale and as systematic as the Holocaust, persecution of minorities, especially the Jews, was inevitable. On a side note, I've been toying with the idea of what would happen if the Central Powers would've won WWI. I can envisage, based upon my history classes and lurking on the Alternate History fora, that, if Austria Hungary survived, there would've been an ethnic cleansing of the Serbs, depending on the country's actions during the war, Italy could've been split in two with a pro Austrian government in northern Italy, Germany would impose reparations on France, potentially leading to the collapse of the French Empire and Germany becoming a global power, resulting in French oppression of the Jews and war between a revanchist France and Germany, and Japan and America may have engaged in a naval war for control of the Pacific. Israel probably would not come into existence, nor would Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, or Kuwait.

[The New Sea Territory]

The conditions of the Weimar Republic's weakness, post-Great War sparks in nationalism, fearmongering about the Bolsheviks, the desperation of the German people and a gang of thugs called the Brownshirts.

[The Lone Star Republics]

you're thread options are stupid and biased

Hitler got to power with promises of strength and international respect after the humiliation of ww1. he nearly actually delivered on his promises, until he bit off far more than the German people could chew, and he used these promises to commit horrible crimes against humanity.

[The Lone Star Republics]

your thread options:

1- agree with me
2- agree with me partially
3- another option, and makes sure to put in a hit on Bush

and leaves other explanations out

[Dalcaria]

your thread options:

1- agree with me
2- agree with me partially
3- another option, and makes sure to put in a hit on Bush

and leaves other explanations out

Agreed. I probably shouldn't have voted actually. The truth of how he came to power is much more complex than how the OP sees, it, as I described in my first post here, bottom of page 6 by the way.

[Laanvia]

Television wasn't invented so millions of people weren't disgusted by his physical ugliness. He came through power with the radio and the propaganda tools of his time. After visual media became so popular a person as ugly as Adolf Hitler would have no chance at becoming a leader. It was the perfect time for him.

Are you seriously saying that he only came to power because people didn't know/think he was ugly?

[Baltenstein]

Television wasn't invented so millions of people weren't disgusted by his physical ugliness. He came through power with the radio and the propaganda tools of his time. After visual media became so popular a person as ugly as Adolf Hitler would have no chance at becoming a leader. It was the perfect time for him.

Are you seriously saying that he only came to power because people didn't know/think he was ugly?

There's a rather weird obsession with people's physical appearances, which has also popped up in other threads, on -Shie-'s part.

[The Sotoan Union]

I mean I love Capitalism. Seems odd you think I'm using it as an insult.

However, his foreign policy by making irredentist German claims and using the state's government apparatus to consolidate massive amounts of power is one of the political facets of fascism in politics.

Capitalistic is mostly because he improved the economy of the nation via privatization, which goes against Socialistic policies of public control of the economy and nationalization.

Fascism is a very specific ideology, Hitler had aspects of fascism, but he wasn't full fascist. He also wasn't full capitalist with all the government funding of things.

Fascism is an entirely open ideology that can be interpreted in many different ways. It's hard to get a concrete definition. Each form is unique, and it's wrong to say that one version is fascism and that every other version isn't.

[The Sotoan Union]

Are you seriously saying that he only came to power because people didn't know/think he was ugly?

There's a rather weird obsession with people's physical appearances, which has also popped up in other threads, on -Shie-'s part.

Why has this threadjack continued?

If this was a standardized writing test, Shie would have failed for going off topic.

[Dalcaria]

Television wasn't invented so millions of people weren't disgusted by his physical ugliness. He came through power with the radio and the propaganda tools of his time. After visual media became so popular a person as ugly as Adolf Hitler would have no chance at becoming a leader. It was the perfect time for him.

Are you seriously saying that he only came to power because people didn't know/think he was ugly?

Yeah, he does that. Of course, he's totally missed the fact that Hitler spoke publicly in front of THOUSANDS of people, his portrait was put up virtually everywhere, and there was filmed footage of him speaking, which probably made it's way in front of most people in Germany. He really doesn't have a grasp on the reality of why Hitler came to power, like at all. But then again, virtually most of what Shie says boils down to really stupidly superficial assumptions.

[Dalcaria]

Fascism is a very specific ideology, Hitler had aspects of fascism, but he wasn't full fascist. He also wasn't full capitalist with all the government funding of things.

Fascism is an entirely open ideology that can be interpreted in many different ways. It's hard to get a concrete definition. Each form is unique, and it's wrong to say that one version is fascism and that every other version isn't.

Absolutely spot on. Hitler barely even touched on the subject of economics because he felt it was "beneath the party" (or in other words him). How he viewed Fascism was simply as a very strong, organized, and militarized system, which does not encompass some very important factors of what make up political ideologies (like economics for instance). So yes, Fascism is a VERY open ideology in all truthfulness, though you could argue the pragmatism is sort of intrinsic of it.

[Laerod]

Are you seriously saying that he only came to power because people didn't know/think he was ugly?

:lol2: Yeah, he does that. Of course, he's totally missed the fact that Hitler spoke publicly in front of THOUSANDS of people, his portrait was put up virtually everywhere, and there was filmed footage of him speaking, which probably made it's way in front of most people in Germany. He really doesn't have a grasp on the reality of why Hitler came to power, like at all. But then again, virtually most of what Shie says boils down to really stupidly superficial assumptions.

Shie is actually not entirely off target (not for lack of trying, mind). Hitler made sure that photographs taken during his speeches were at an angle that made him look taller. He certainly compensated for a lack of impressive height.

[Grand Russian Federation]

A better question is, why the FUCK was the Sudetenland given to that fuckface?

[Laerod]

A better question is, why the FUCK was the Sudetenland given to that fuckface?

Because he had a rather valid case. The maps of Europe were redrawn haphazardly under the idea that people should be able to determine what country they lived in. This was regularly ignored where significant German populations were concerned.

[Albul]

Simple, after he came back from the war and was rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts for his unoriginal artwork (it was decent, but nothing to talk about), he became angry and started to pander his political ideology, which was centered mostly on nationalism.

Hitler himself joined German Worker's Party (DAP) in 1919, a very small party at the time. It was very nationalistic and anti-Semitic, to the point of hating Marx merely for the fact that he had Jewish ancestry. Now, Hitler was able to become the President quickly, then he change the name to the National Socialist German Worker's Party (NSDPA) afterwards known as the Nazi Party. As the party developed, Hitler rose to power slowly but surely, managing to have Mein Kampf published by 1925. The Party had gained recognition and credibility by 1929. He spread his ideology and continued his campaign until he obtained the position of Chancellor. Then the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933, which pretty much let Hitler do what he wished. By that time, Hitler had plenty of allies in government. This is not to say that he didn't have powerful opposition, but now he had the power to crush his opposition. This was when Hitler burned the Reichstag, blaming the communists, so that he may be able to suspend civil liberties and gain more control over the government and its people. Note that this has been common behavior among the Nazis as they were developing, to blame the opposition (e.g., the communists) for misdeeds.

[Ulfr-Reich]

Go back in time, let Hitler pass into Art-school; avoid World War two.

[MERIZoC]

I mean, you could use wikipedia. Just saying.

[Albul]

I mean, you could use wikipedia. Just saying.

I am sad to say that I already read the Wikipedia article in the past about the rise of Hitler.

I mean, this isn't really up for debate. Hitler's rise to power isn't a subjective, but rather objective. Now, the question of how Hitler stayed in power might be up for debate. The question of how, let's say, Caesar came to power is a question that is based more on conjecture than solid fact, subjective rather than objective.