The document discusses the rise of dictators in Germany in the 1930s. It mentions key figures like Chancellor Heinrich Brünning and President Paul von Hindemburg ruling Germany as the nation struggled with the depression, rising communism, and failed disarmament. As democracy and the parliamentary system weakened, Adolf Hitler was eventually able to seize power as Chancellor and Führer.

1. • Chancellor: Heinrich Brünning.
• President: Paul von Hindemburg.

4. I didn’t have the support of
the Parliament
so…
I had to call for new elections

5. I demand to be
made
Chancellor!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!

6. I don’t trust I’ll rather
wait for the
Hitler…I will next set of
reappoint elections
von Papen
Mr. Hitler, do you want to
be vice-chancellor?

7. We lost
34
seats!!!

8. I will call von
Schleicher as
Chancellor
Nazis should
be weakened

9. I will choose the nazi
Strasser to be vice-
Chancellor instead of
Hitler

10. Don’t accept it,
ok?
I won’t, mein
Führer!

11. What a mess! What
should I do…? I rather
offer Hitler the post of
Chancellor…
Great
idea!

12. I will call for new
elections…perhaps we
could win some more
seats

15. I still have some
opposition…I will
declare the
Communist party
illegal

16. I will also sign the
Enabling Act, which will
enable me to govern
for 4 years without the
Parliament

17. Röhm is my political
opponent. I should
assassinate him and his
SA men…

19. I’m now
President+Chancellor

21. Factors in the rise of the dictators
• Locarno
• Isolationism
• Depression
• France
• Democracy
• Disarmament failed
• Communism

22. Locarno= Western borders

23. Vengeance, German nation!

25. • This is an ancient
Roman symbol of
power carried by
lictors in front of
magistrates; a
bundle of sticks
featuring an axe,
indicating the
power over life and
death.
• It’s a symbol of
strength through
unity

26. • The swastika was a symbol of the Aryan
Race (essentially a race of caucasians
with no ties to other races) who they
claimed were the foundation of the
German civilization and were superior to
all other races.

27. • Flag of the
Spanish Falange,
bearing the yoke
and arrows, the
premier symbol
of Falangism.