Anyone knows how Hitler rose to power after WW1?

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I'm doing history in sch, and i have a test coming up, but my textbook does not contain much info. about Adolf Hitler rising to fame and power, and the net sometimes contain too much info. in which most does not have to do with the rise of Hitler.
Why does Hitler hate the jews so much... or maybe afraid of them?
 
Hitler used the disappointment of the German people, due to their defeat in WWI, to his advantage. He also used the political situation in Germany as well (the Weimar Republic was falling apart).
 
The first person who answered your question gave you an important part of the story. But here's the rest of the story:

The Versailles Treaty ending WW I required the Germans to pay the Allied countries (England, France, Italy, etc.) millions of dollars for damage done to their countries by Germany during the war. So the economy was bad, people were poor and starving. The government had no money to help the people because their money was going to repay the allies. Hitler used a very old ploy to gain power and the confidence of the people. He found someone to blame - the Jews. People always want to find a scapegoat for their problems, so they don't have to blame themselves. Once he came into power he convinced everyone that invading Poland and other parts of Europe would help them economically by providing human and material resources to rebuild Germany.
 
if you want the historically correct account, all you have to do is read an authoritative book which deals with this properly, which school textbooks and the net often do not. Go to the library and ask the librarian for 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' by William Shirer.The first part of the book deals specifically with the rise of Adolf Hitler to power.
 
He was a drifter after the war, joined a tiny political party whose head recognized Hitler was a far better speaker and organizer, and stepped aside to let him run things. He got a few military people interested and thought they would support a putsch (coup d'etat). They didn't and Hitler wound up imprisoned briefly, during which time he wrote out his goals in the notorious "Mein Kampf". His party began to do well in elections as the Depression developed, eventually Hitler ran second for the top job, Chancellor, and was offered Premier. The Chancellor, Hindenburg, then died, and Hitler took over everything.
 
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