Nazi Seizure of Power

The ideology of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party is presented in considerable detail in Hitler’s Mein Kampf and William Sheridan Allen’s Nazi Seizure of Power. The NSDAP used Hitler’s ideology and made them the focus of their party. These beliefs were crucial to the spread of the Nazi party in Germany. They were also used to determine who could join the party destined to seize power with the failure of the Weimar Republic.
One of the main attractions of the Nazi party was that the Nazis presented themselves as the salvation for the masses hurt by the Great Depression. With the coming of the Great Depression, many political divisions formed in the Weimar Republic among the member parties of the Grand Coalition. Eventually the Grand Coalition collapsed over the issue of unemployment insurance for workers that were laid off by the advancing depression. In response to this failure, Paul von Hindenburg named Heinrich Bruenig chancellor, but this did little to help the situat...