Why did Hitler become chancellor?

Why did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany in January 1933?

• Effects of the Wall Street Crash and the Depression
• Unemployment was high, businesses plummeted making Germans lose confidence in their country
• 40% of all workers were unemployed
• Young people couldn't get any work
• Middle class people lose thier businesses, savings and interests
• Farmers had fallen into even further debt

• Weaknesses and failings of the Weimar system and governments
• President Hindenburg and the Weimar Republic were beginning to show weakness
• Weimar raised taxes, cut wages and reduced unemployment benefit
• Social democrats resigned from Weimar government as…