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Nazi Germany In 1919 few would have thought that the Nazi Party, starting as a gang of unemployed soldiers would become the legal government of Germany by 1933. A once obscure corporal, Adolf Hitler, would become the chancellor of Germany in fourteen years. With a grisly total of thirty-seven casualties, including nine million dead combatants World War I ended in 1918. Resulting in a sense of injured German national pride, German propaganda had not prepared the nation for …

…the national depression, the Weimar democracy could not cope as unemployment doubled by 1932. Germany's government remained on the edge of failure, the economy still in crisis. In the election of 1932, the Nazi Party won thirty-seven percent of the Reichstag seats, "thanks to massive propaganda campaigning." For the months to come, the most powerful German leaders were involved in a progression of serious political scheming. Eventually, these major players' severely underestimated Hitler's political abilities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**