Adolf Hitler

Introduction
"Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party rose to total power in Germany by appealing to German nationalism and eliminating potential opponents one by one."
By 1934 Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party had achieved total power in Germany. It had all the qualities of a totalitarian state. It was due to conditions in Germany after WW1 that extremist's parties such as Adolf Hitler and the Nazis first got an opportunity to appeal to German nationalism and discontent, with such things as the Weimar Govt. Political stability for Germany between 1923-28 saw the Nazi Party decline in popularity but with the onset of the Great Depression the Germans expressed their discontent by turning away from the Weimar government.

After World War One Germany was politically, socially, economically, culturally and nationally in chaos. The two main causes that brought about these conditions were the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty and the loss of the war. The German people felt a sense of bet...