Democratic Rise of Nazism Parallels the Fall of Capitalism.
1929 October 24 "Black Thursday" -- the New York Stock Exchange crashes, quickly setting off a worldwide economic depression. Investors who had been "buying stock on margin," (generally 10%) were devastated when their "24-hour broker call loans " were all called in at the same time. This meant that the stock brokers and their customers had to dump their stocks in order to pay off their loans. When all the sellers offered their stock at the same time, prices plummeted.
1930 September 14 The Nazis become Germany's second largest party.107 National Socialist deputies are elected to the Reichstag (20% of the vote). Social Democrats remain the largest party in the Reichstag.
1931 September 21 The Bank of England quits the gold standard.
1931 December German unemployment exceeds 5 million.
1931 The Empire State Building in New York becomes the world's tallest building.
1932 March 13 Hindenburg fails to win a majority in the Presidentiall elections. Hitler receives 11,339,446 votes (30.1%).
1932 April 10 Hindenburg is re-elected President in a runoff election with Hitler. Hindenburg receives a clear majority, but Hitler receives 13,418,547 votes (36.8%).
1932 June 3 President Hindenburg dissolves the Reichstag.
1932 July 31 The National Socialists win 230 seats in Reichstag elections. The Socialists win 133, the Catholic Center 97, and the Communists, 89. The total vote for the National Socialists is 13,745,000 (37%).
1932 November 6 New elections in Germany fail to break a parliamentary deadlock. The National Socialists lose 34 seats.
1933 January 23 Molotov makes a speech announcing ratification of nonaggression pacts with all of Russia's neighbors except Romania.
1933 January 30 Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor by President Hindenberg. Franz von Papen becomes Vice-Chancellor. Only three of the eleven posts in the cabinet are held by National Socialists.
1933 February 27 A huge fire destroys the Reichstag, the seat of German government. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist, is arrested after he is found bare to the waist inside the Reichstag. During interrogation, the young radical confesses that he set the fire "As a protest," but denies any connection with the Communist Party and swears he alone had set the fires inside the Reichstag. Rudolf Diels, chief of the Prussian political police, tells Hitler that van der Lubbe's confession rings true, but Hitler refuses to believe the arsonist had acted alone and blames the Communist movement as a whole for the troubles that continue to plague Germany. Hitler and Goebbels work from midnight to dawn at the "Völkischer Beobachter"offices preparing the next day's edition, which accuses the Reds of a plot to seize power and setting fire to the Reichstag.
1933 March 5 The NSDAP receives 44% of the vote (288 seats) in the Reichstag elections. Although the Nazis had a sizable plurality over any other party, they still lacked an absolute majority. The Nazi-Nationalist coalition is required to give them a narrow majority of 52 %. Goebbels is in charge of the Nazi campaign during the elections.
1933 February 28 Hindenburg signs the "Decree for the Protection of the People and the State," which has been quickly drafted by Hitler and his aides. This emergency decree suspends the civil liberties granted by the Weimar Constitution. Free speech, free press, sanctity of the home, security of mail and telephone, freedom to assemble or form organizations and the inviolability of private property are all abolished. It also allows the Nazis to put their political opponents in prison and establish concentration camps.
1933 March 6 An emergency decree proclaimed by the Nazis, For the Protection of the German People, restricts the opposition press and information services. (Edelheit)
1933 March 9 The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Banking Relief Act, leading to the establishment of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). (Edelheit)
1933 March 23 The Reichstag approved the Enabling Act which gave Hitler unlimited dictatorial power.
1933 April 8 Zionist leaders, including Chaim Weizmann and Chaim Arlosoroff, meet with Arab leaders from Transjordan at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
1933 April 19 The U.S. drops from the gold standard.
1933 May 2 On Hitler's orders, all independent and Socialist trade unions in Germany are closed down and dissolved. The remains are united into the German Labor Front (DAF). (Lewy, Edelheit)
1933 May 12 The U.S. Federal Emergency Relief Act and Agricultural Adjustment Act are passed. The dollar is devalued by 50 percent.
1933 May 17 Hitler makes his first major "peace" speech, denying his intent to subject other nations to German domination.
1933 May 17 Strikes and walkouts are banned in Germany.
1933 May 23 Republican Congressman Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania brings impeachment charges against the Federal Reserve Board, the agency he says that caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929, with these charges, among others:
"I charge them... with having... taken over $80,000,000,000 (eighty billion dollars) from the United States government in the year 1928....
I charge them... with having arbitrarily and unlawfully raised and lowered the rates on money... increased and diminished the volume of currency in circulation for the benefit of private interests...."
I charge them... with having conspired to to transfer to foreigners and international money lenders title to and control of the financial resources of the United States....
It was a carefully contrived occurrence... The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all.
(Congressional Record May 23, 1933)
1933 May 27 The U.S. Truth in Securities Act is passed.
1933 June 16 The National Industry Recovery Act (NRA) passes in the United States.
1933 July 3 Roosevelt rejects the World Monetary and Economic Conference's stabilization plan.
1933 July 27 In London, the World Monetary and Economic Conference ends in failure. Roosevelt's lack of support was largely responsible.
1933 November 12 Hitler receives 92% of the vote in new German elections.
1934 January 31 The U.S. dollar is devalued to 60 cents.
In early 1934 The SA (Sturmabteilung) had been instrumental in Hitler's rise to power. Rhere were 2.5 million SA men compared with 100,000 men in the regular army. Hitler knew that the regular army opposed the SA becoming its core. Fearing the power of the regular army to force him from office, Hitler curried their favor by attacking the leadership of the SA in the "Night of the Long Knives." Hitler arrested Ernst Röhm and scores of other SA leaders and had them shot by the SS , which now rose in importance.1934 March 21 Hitler announces the "war on unemployment," emphasizing the need to employ five million jobless Germans during the coming year.
1934 Hitler in a conversation with Hermann Rauschning asks: "How can we arrest racial decay? Shall we form a select company of the really initiated? An Order, the brotherhood of Templars around the holy grail of pure blood?"
1934 August 2 President Hindenburg died. Hitler combined the offices of Reich Chancellor and President, declaring himself Führer and Reich Chancellor, or Reichsführer (Leader of the Reich).
1935 May 21 Hitler once again declares himself a man of peace and disavows any imperialist designs during a speech to the Reichstag.
1935 October 2 German banks are prohibited from issuing loans and giving credit to Jews.
1936 January The German government begins a series of trials of members of the religious orders accused of violating the foreign currency laws. Press coverage is hostile to the accused in almost all cases. (Lewy)
1936 March 3 Italy abolishes private banking.
1936 March 29 Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
Conclusion:
Hitler democratically rose to power as people felt the anxiety of the systemic collapse of the economy. Unable to attribute the cause to anyone and with the want of a cause they chose the Jews, among others, as a scapegoat.