The rise of Hitler and his nazis was mainly caused by two things; Hitler's act of understanding the pain which the people which he was trying to appeal to, and Hitler's ability to take advantage of situations to help his own cause. With his own charismatic personality, and the economical crisis with the Treaty of Versailles, it was not difficult for Hitler to make a few promises saying he would make life better for everybody, and have the crowd immediately agree to what he was saying, and vote for the Nazi party. Secondly, Hitler used every opportunity he got to either gain himself more votes, or make it harder for other political parties (like the social democratic party and communist party) to gain votes. An example of this is the Reichstag Fire, which Hitler blamed on the communists, which, in turn gave him an opportunity to antagonize communists and gain popularity for himself.
I thought that your blogpost was pretty good. I agree with the idea that the treat and Hitler's opportunistic personality playing a big part of his success. Although I think that at the end of the blogpost, where you talk abut the Reichstag Fire, I think that you could've expanded a bit more. Give some background information about why Germany hated the communists. Overall, good job. :)))
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