The Rise of Adolf Hitler

During the 1920's and early 1930's Germany was unstable socially, economically and politically. The governments were more often in a state of disarray than not, the population was disillusioned and scared, and the Great Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 saw the economy crumble to an all time low. These unfavourable factors combined to create a nation of precarious stature, a country which was looking for a saviour. This came in the form of fascism, an ideology in which the individual is dominated by an all-powerful state under the control of one supreme leader. The hand to lead the pe…