History 101: Why did Hitler become chancellor in January 1933? Part 2 This is the second part of the big question where we explore how the mistakes of the Weimar contributed to Hitlers rise: Unemployed line up for "Free coffee and Doughnuts" The Weimar government eventually became a Key factor of why Hitler became Chancellor. Weimar's first mistake was how it relied too much on America. The Weimar had taken huge loans (Dawes plan 1924 of 800 million marks) which tied Germany's economy to Americas'. Although there were no immediate negatives at the time because America was thriving, it was seen as risky. If Americas' economy was to crash, Germanys' would have followed however ten times as worse because it relied on America so much. In 1929 the wall street crash came and plunged America into poverty and unemployment. Germany followed but the impact was ten times as worse. Weimars second mistake was how its handled the depression. Instead of pumpi...
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