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abhatia · Joined: 26 Jan 2011 Posts: 37

Was Hitler's appointment as chancellor a 'miscalculation' or intentional do you think?

wlotas2013 · Joined: 14 Nov 2011 Posts: 20

The reading claimed Hitler could be "controlled", implying he had power to be "controlled". Germany requires power in order to recover from its crippled state, therefore a risk, such as naming Hitler chancellor, would be necessary.
They saw Hitler as a tool needing to be stabilized.

mfaber · Joined: 14 Nov 2011 Posts: 8

I think that appointing Hitler as Chancelor was intentional. The reading mentioned that everyone misjudged Hitler. They thought he would fail as a ruler and help other leaders and parties rise up to power instead. The president, Hindenberg, also thought Hitler would make him rise up to power more. He elected Hitler because he thought it would benefit him greatly. Everyone was mistaken though, and it turned out Hitler did not fail as a leader but knew exactly what he was doing and where he was taking Germany in the future.

carolineskate · Joined: 17 Feb 2011 Posts: 13

I agree with Meike. I do think that appointing Hitler as Chancellor was intentional. Many people underestimated him and didn't believe he would end up being such a powerful and dictatorial person. And, in the end, Hitler benefited more than anyone else. He knew what he wanted to do, what his plan was, and he was ready to it.

operaman667 · Joined: 14 Nov 2011 Posts: 9

Overall, I think that Hitler's rise to chancellor was intentional. His voters/followers completely misjudged who he was, not knowing the kind of hell that he would later bring. Some people thought he would surely fail as a leader, but they thought wrong. Hitler seemed to benefit the most from Hindenburg's electing of him. Hitler was a great leader, and had plans for what he wanted to make of Germany in the years to come.

bella · Joined: 17 Feb 2011 Posts: 11

Hitler's appointment as chancellor was intentional and in some ways a miscalculation. Hitler's powerful supporters believed he would be a pawn for their own plans for power and worked tirelessly to advance him politically and to get him appointed. Though Hitler's actual appointment as chancellor was no miscalculation as evident by the support he received, those who supported him for their owns gains certainly miscalculated his power. They expected they could take over behind the scenes and use Hitler as a figurehead, but when appointed as chancellor, Hitler did not allow them any control over his new government. Hitler's appointment as chancellor was intentional but in hindsight a serious miscalculation by those who helped him get their.

aryerson2012 · Joined: 21 Nov 2011 Posts: 6

Hitler's appointment as Chancellor was clearly a miscalculation by several of the men involved in it, especially Von Papen, Hindenburg, and many conservative landowners and industrialists who thought they could control him. But all of these men had a clear intention that allowed them to make such a disasterous miscalculation. By 1932, the number of Germans who really wanted Hitler to run Germany, plus the number who thought he would be better than some party they feared even more, usually radicals and Communists, had become a majority. Most Germans did not intend to choose a dictator for Germany, but they were not willing to support a democracy.

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