The democratic new parliament, known as the Weimar Republic, was unpopular. ... In 1919, Ernst RÖhm joined the German Workers Party. ... The party had started numbering from five hundred to make the party seem larger. ... By 1921, Hitler was the leader of the German Workers Party, which had changed its name to the National Socialist Workers Party, or NSDAP. ... The Nazis stood in the middle of a rival party meeting. ...

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Due to proportional representation (PR) no party could solely form a government. ... By then, they were the strongest ever party. ... This meant they were making decisions by themselves without consulting the Reichstag (which was the democratic body). ... The election the Nazi party won in March allowed it to make decision without the consent of the Reichstag, so Hitler took control of this and dissolved every other party. Germany was then a one-party state. ...

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From 1868 to 1870, while federal occupation troops were being withdrawn from the southern staes and radical regimes replaced with the Democratic administrations, the Klan was increasingly dominated by the rougher elements in the poulation. ... In that year a resolution denouncing the klan, introduced at the national convention of the Democratic party, precipitated a bitter contraversy and was defeated. ... Nazi Party Nazi Party was alson known as National Socialism. ... The National Socialist Party oroginated in the German Worker's Party, formed in Munich in 1919. ... All ...

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That same day, the Social Democratic Party declared Germany was a republic. ... This meant that no party ever had majority in the Reichstag. ... Hitler's party got votes from disillusioned middle-class workers who switched their usual votes for the National Party and the Democrats to the Nazi's. ... He succeeded and rose to supreme control in the party. ... The Nazi's were supported for many reasons, and each of these saw the Nazi Party eventually come to be a very successful and powerful party in Germany. ...

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However, after a brief bout of depression over the failed coup, Hitler became more determined than ever to oust the democratic Weimar Republic government. ... Accordingly, Hitler set out to use the democratic system against the reigning Weimar Republic. The "path of legality" became the new platform for the Nazi party. The basic premise of rallying a mass political movement from within the democratic system was initiated in order to gain the popular vote of the German people. ... He was able to accomplish this task by becoming a student of the democratic Weimar Republic. ...

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He and his political party, the Nazis, drew popular support. ... In Russia, the Communist Party swept into power. ... With the exception of the Nazi Party, all political parties were banned. ... They lead the attack on opponents to Hitler and the Nazi Party. ... Violence became the weapon of choice of the Nazi party. ...

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The Social Democratic Party was the leading party in the creation of the Weimar Republic. ... The Weimar constitution was actually very democratic. ... A democratic system, where proportional representation was used. This meant making it easy for small parties to gain representation in the Reichstag. ... This democratic government which many parts of Germany society saw as too democratic, since so many of them were used to an autocracy, began to side with either the left or the right in Germany. ...

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Adolf was an Austrian-born German politician who led the Nazi Party. ... That is because Germans had hope in the Nazi Party. ... The NSDAP had enough power to paralyze Germany's democratic government, which was put in place in 1919. ... In February 1933, Hitler used the Reichstag fire as an excuse to declare a state of emergency and suspend democratic protections. ... Hitler did succeed in destroying democracy in Germany; in 1933 he was elected democratically but once he was given the power to rule by decree and suppressed all opposition, his government was no longer democratic. ...

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Mussolini set up the Fascist Party and posed as a strong man who could sort out Italy's problems. ... This stated that whichever party won the next general election would receive two-thirds of the seats in parliament. ... When a leader of the Socialist party, Giacomo Matteotti, spoke out against the Fascists he was kidnapped and found murdered. ... Despite standing in elections on a "Law and Order" platform, the party is more a criminal conspiracy than a legitimate political organisation, and abuses the democratic process in a vain attempt towards respectability. ... Supporters come f...

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The fascist's didnt make idle promises like the democratic Govts. ... It gave the democratic Weimar govt. ... Although Italy had been democratic since 1870 it had failed to take root. ... Hitler's Nazi Party it stood no chance. ... For the most part it was external factors that made the position of some democratic Govts. ...

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Hitler whilst in prison realised that violence was not the way to gain votes in the elections and so decided that they would win power by democratic methods instead of trying to gain it by force. ... By 1932 the Nazi Party was now the biggest party in the Reichstag. ... The nazi party was gaining even more votes but still did not have power until Nazis, amounted to just over half of the number of seats. ... And what he wanted was total power The Nationalist Party decided to join forces with the Nazis. ...

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Several attempts to install nationalistic beliefs back into the government manifested itself into the violent Kapp Putsch by the right-wing nationalists and the Munich Beer Hall Putsch by the Nazi Party. ... This lack of public support can be further attributed to the dramatic change from the stable autocratic leadership of the 'military-like state' of Germany's old political structure, to the unstable state of democratic Weimar Germany. ... Although the Putsch was a failure, it was significant as it showed how groups from either political parties were prepared to take action a...

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The dominance of the Nazi Party as the single mass party ruling Germany occurred gradually but certainly. ... From this point, the ascension of the Nazi party as the only party ruling in Germany got easier as Hitler banned the Social Democratic Party of Germany in June 1933, before banning completely all the other political parties other than Nazis in July 14 1933. ... And as every totalitarian state, this single mass Party was directed by an official ideology: Nazism. ... In addition to that, a big censorship was enforced, banning any article going against the Nazi Party. ... To spread even m...

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By the end of 1920, the party had grown to about three thousand members and Hitler was voted the leader of the Nazi Party. In an attempt to overthrow the democratic government, Hitler was put into jail for nine months. ... He divided the party into 2 parts. One was dedicated to undermining and plotting to overthrow the German government that was still a democratic republic. ... The democratic view of freedom, is to do what one wants but not at the expense of others" freedom. ...

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By the mid 1920's Adolf Hitler was the undisputed leader of the Nazi Party. ... Both factors saw some support move from the communist party to the Nazi's and Hitler. Ultimately the murders resulted in one less party to oppose the Nazis. ... Middle class voters soon became disillusioned by the Weimar government, and turned their voting habits around towards Hitler's Nazi Party at the expense of the National Party, the People's Party and the Democrats. ... One of the more successful was the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler. ...

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It fell on to the shoulders of the German Socialist Party who of course took the blame by the German people. ... The political culture was so polarized on extreme levels of left versus right that infighting stalled a lot of progress that other democratic republics enjoyed. ... Until 1929, the Nazi Party was a fringe splinter political group along with a lot of other extremist left and right-wing parties. ... Hitler joined the the German Workers party in 1919 the group later changed the name to the NSDAP, the Nazi party, (Bergan, 32) and though was not first looked at as anyone important he qu...

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On July 14, 1933, a law declared that the "National Socialist German Workers' Party constitutes the only political party in Germany. ... Finally the Nazi party was the only legal political party in Germany. ... In conclusion, the Nazi party was able to relinquish any sort of democratic reasonability the Reichstag had within four months of its election. ... The German Democratic party had finally been eliminated, and Hitler's dream for Nazi command became closer to reality. ... All other political parties were dissolved of. ...

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At the beginning the Nazis tried to overthrow the German democratic Weimar Republic by force in November 1923. ... In prison Hitler swore to himself to play by democratic rules and get elected... " Instead of working to achieve power by an armed coup we shall have to hold our message & enter the Reichstag by democratic means. ... The Nazi Party gained power for many reasons. ... Thus hatred of the Treaty of Versailles resulted in hatred of the first German democratic Weimar Republic, which signed the treaty. ...

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Due to the number of parties in the Reichstag these decisions proved to be hard to make. ... So with an unstable parliamentary government, the people of Germany, who were not very democratic and did not have much tradition or history of democracy for them to look back on, started to vote for anti-democratic parties, such as the Nazis. ... In the same year the Nazis were made the largest single party in the Reichstag, but not having an overall majority. Proportional representation was being used in the coalition government, which meant that the different parties were constantly arguing. ... Th...

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1.a) Explain how the Nazi Party consolidated its power in Germany in the period 1933-1939. The Nazi Party is now known as the most callously notorious political party of our modern times. ... The Nazi party was the very quintessence of Hitler himself. ... The elections of September 1930 brought about the extraordinary unforseen development; the Nazi Party increased its representation in the Reichstag from 12 members to 107, becoming the second largest party around. ... The Great Depression impacted on the people's lives greatly, consequently resulting in their loss of faith in the demo...

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Each town had NSDAP party members in it. These party members had one goal in mind, to take control at of the townspeople at the first chance they had. ... This was because the lower class supported the Social Democratic party. Nazism appealed to the middle class because the middle class needed a party that would let keep them above the lower class. ... In Northeim the Nazis appealed to the middle class because the Nazis were against the Social Democratic party. ...

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The government alienated the Extreme Left and this would prevent the Social Democratic Party and the Communists to later work together to oppose the threat from Hitler and the Nazi Party. ... This is what Nazi Party had been waiting for. They exploited the despair of the German people; the Nazi party always did well in times of crisis. ... The death of Stresseman led to more votes for the Nazi party and also to the collapse of Weimar. ...

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The party changed its name to become the National Socialist German Workers" Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) or NAZI for short. The party then developed its own symbols and colours to be associated with- the swastika, colours red, black and white and a distinct party salute. The party's extreme right wing views to communism and to the republic, the party attracted ex-Freikorps troops and by 1921 the Nazi Party had its own private army, the Sturmabteilung (SA) or Storm Troopers. ... Hitler then used his trial in 1924 to promote his party and his views. ... He also rea...

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Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of a constitutional republic, theoretically subject to democratic checks and balances. Hitler's path to power was all very official, and absolutely within the legalities of the democratic Constitution. ... Hitler's party had 230 out of 608 seats in the Reichstag in the July 1932 elections. ... Soon thereafter the trade unions were dissolved, and opposition parties were dismissed. ... "The appeal to personal loyalty had been Hitler's hallmark, especially in moments of crisis since the early years of the party". ...

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Yet, while the allies shared ideals, they were defectively democratic as well. ... Still, despite all the democratic differences, there were still numerous differences between the allied coalition and the Axis. One difference was the remobilization of the French and British people to war by using democratic ideals to rally support for the war. ... Also, democratic leaders with democratic ideals ruled Britain, France, and the USA while Germany and Italy were led by military dictatorships that placed the constitutional leaders in the sidelines. ... At whatever time the Germans had a victory it ...

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