Path to Power

Filling three high-level voids caused Adolph Hitler to rise to power as the totalitarian dictator of Germany. With his country in the ferment left from World War One, groups at all levels of politics were looking for a savior. Hitler stumbled upon an awareness of his own charisma, saw the opportunities to usurp power, and pursued his assent. The key factors allowing his success were his rise through the German Workers’ Party, becoming Chancellor of …

…oath of obedience—not to Germany, but to Hitler himself. With this oath, The Fuhrer’s Third Reich was firmly established. With these three key strategies, Hitler became the totalitarian dictator of Germany and the horror of the Holocaust began in earnest. No one dare question his treachery. The prophecy of General Kurt von Schleicher was soon to be fulfilled. As he predicted, “This corporal will destroy Germany and it will have a horrible end.”