What factors led to the rise of the Nazis and their power?

The
primary reason for the Nazi party's rise to power was economic desperation. Before the Great
Depression hit Germany and put millions out of work, the National Socialist party of Germany was
a fringe party on the far political right. Many people equated the depression to Germany's
defeat in World War I, and general consensus, particularly among the working class, was that the
Parliament was impotent to solve any economic crisis.

Hitler was a powerful
and charismatic master of oration and , and he won the working class and the disenfranchised
middle class over to his cause by promising to restore Germany to its former glory by
reinstating traditional values as well as providing jobs and economic stability for all. The
Nazi party played on the insecurity of being defeated in the previous world war, and promised to
restore the country to a land with a grand destiny.