What factors account for Hitler's rise to power?

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Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in a small Austrian village called Braunau. Hitler always wanted to be an artist but he never was able to enter the Vienna Art Academy. Hitler left Austria for Munich in Germany because he thought that Vienna had too many foreigners. He fought the World War I with the Germans and was lauded. However, he blamed Germany for its defeat with the Marxists and Jews. Hitler's hatred of Marxists and Jews was the cause that lead him to be one of the most violent and sanguinary dictators of history. We look more into his life and deeds in this article.

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[...] The treaty of Versailles prohibited it and therefore France and Britain ceased the International Court of Justice who declared the Anschluss invalid. Brüning was a chancellor who ruled by emergency decree, without passing by the Parliament. Hitler understood that these were the perfect conditions to make people vote for the extremes and that was what he did. In 1930, parliamentary elections took place. The Nazi party gained more that eighty seats passing from 15 to 107 seats. It therefore became the first political party of Germany. In May 1932, presidential elections took place in Germany. [...]

[...] He was arrested and sent to jail. During the nine months that he spent in prison, he wrote a book called Mein Kampf (My Struggle) in which he exposed his theory of Nazism. It was inspired by many men like Darwin's theory of evolution, Wagner and his music which reminded him of the Teutonic Knights but also Nietzsche's theory of the extraordinary man and Machiavelli's theory. In Mein Kampf, Hitler explained that there was a superiority of races in which the Aryan race was at the top and the Jews and Marxists at the bottom in a situation which Hitler called as those who did not deserve to live. [...]

[...] It also was a sign that Germany was doing better, or at least that things went better. In fact, things had not changed. Brüning was succeeded by Papen who himself was followed by von Schleicher. That created tensions between the multiple political parties. Some felt that their chance of establishing a monarch was going away. Others felt that their time was soon to come. In that period of tension, even Papen felt jealous of his successor: von Schleicher. He felt it was bad for his ambitions. [...]

[...] Papen however had taken his precautions and said that he would become Vice-Chancellor and attend to every meeting between the president and the Chancellor. He said that he would control the Chancellor and that he would in fact be the one to command everything. After long negotiations with Hindenburg, he finally accepted under the pressure of his son and secretaries. On the 30th of January 1933, Hindenburg appointed Hitler, Chancellor of Germany. That decision proved to be catastrophic for the whole world. Papen never was able to control Hitler. Yet, Hitler's rise to power was completely legal. [...]

[...] What factors account for Hitler's rise to power? Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in a small Austrian village called Braunau. Hitler always wanted to be an artist but he never was able to enter the Vienna Art Academy. Hitler left Austria for Munich in Germany because he thought that Vienna had too much foreigners. He fought World War I with the Germans and was decorated. However, he blamed Germany's defeat on Marxists and Jews. Hitler's hatred of Marxists and Jews was the cause that lead him to be one of the most violent and sanguinary dictator of history. [...]