The Nazy party was formed back in 1919. The Nazi party wasn’t always bad it was originally the German Workers’ Party, and was founded by Anton Drexler (he was a Munich locksmith). Hitler attended one of the meetings that year and took over the party. He renamed the party the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. The party’s socialist orientation was basically a demagogic gambit designed to attract support from the working class. Under Hitler the Party grew tremendously and steadily. Meetings were starting to take place under anyone's knowledge. They grew from old veterans and paramilitary organizations and were organized under the name Sturmabteilung. In 1923 Hitler and his followers felt strong enough to stage the Beer Hall Putsch, an unsuccessful attempt to take control of the Bavarian state government in the hope that it would trigger a nationwide insurrection against the Weimar Republic. The coup failed, the Nazi Party was temporarily banned, and Hitler was sent to prison for most of 1924. When he was released Hitler quickly set about rebuilding his moribund party, vowing to achieve power only through legal political means. The Nazi…show more content… Hitler’s shrewd maneuvering behind the scenes prompted the president of the German republic, Paul von Hindenburg, to name him chancellor on Jan. 30, 1933. Hitler used the powers of his office to solidify the Nazis’ position in the government during the following months. The elections of March 5, 1933, gave the Nazi Party 44 percent of the votes, and further unscrupulous tactics on Hitler’s part turned the voting balance in the Reichstag in the Nazis’ favour. On March 23, 1933, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which enabled Hitler’s government to issue decrees independently of the Reichstag and the presidency; Hitler in effect assumed dictatorial
