When the economy was failing, the people looked for a new solution. Hitler did come into power legitimately with the peoples' will. And when Hitler gets into power Hindenburg and the conservatives allow him to abuse his power. Of all the reasons, the least at fault is the constitution. The constitution's only fault may have been to trust in its people, and with even that, the people have shown to be incompetent of having such trust.

The Nazi party was not doing well during the "Golden years of the Republic"; they could easily be labeled only a splinter party. In fact the Nazis' had lost votes from December of 1924 when they had only 3% to May of 1928 when they had only 2.6%. When you take into account that right after the depression hit in September 1930 the Nazi party jumped into the political scene with 18.3

The Weimar trusted in the peoples' vote and in the early years of Hitler, the people could not really say that a vote for Hitler was not legitimate. Hitler had the respect of having the Iron Cross 1st Class metal awarded to him for his bravery in World War I. And after joining the German Workers Party and finding his passion in politics he also found his charismatic knack for public speaking. After going to court for his part in the Beer Hall Putch, Hitler turned the tables on the court and made out as if he were not being treacherous to the German State but was actually for Germany and its well being. The people who were anti-republican had chose to see him as a martyr for all that was good and had gained respect for him and his cause. After his prison sentence Hitler still had the power within the Nazi party and decided that they need an ally to help his cause. The Nazis' were then in the referendum with the conservatives against the Young Plan, this gave the Nazis' a degree of respectability with the people and media of Germany for having a legit affiliation with a much larger respected party. With the Nazis' being the second largest party in the Reichstag Hitler had a lot of respect and opted to be President in the 1932 elections. Hitler lost but with his 13.5 million votes, it showed he had a good number of followers. With this much support Hindenburg, who became the new President, gives in to the pressure and announces Hitler as the new Chancellor on January 30, 1933, starting what is known as the "Legal Revolution". The people and government could not foresee what Hitler's master plan was because Hitler had planned this type of manipulation, if they could have the Nazis' would never managed to get as far as they did.

Hitler was then in a great position of power but still could not act alone to do treacherous things. The Reichstag was still the lawmaking body and Hindenburg's signature was needed to allow Hitler to do anything. The Weimar Constitution had provided for this check to the Chancellor's power and the Chancellor was the check to the President's power. Most

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