The inevitability of anything can logically be subverted by saying that people have free will. In the case of Hitler and the reasons and consequences of his getting in to power because of the Weimar Constitution is simply not true because the people of Germany also have free will which means they can choose to either follow the Constitution or not. No Constitution could work unless people work with it, and within it.
             When the economy was failing, the people looked for a new solution. Hitler did come into power legitimately with the peoples' will. And when Hitler gets into power Hindenburg and the conservatives allow him to abuse his power. Of all the reasons, the least at fault is the constitution. The constitution's only fault may have been to trust in its people, and with even that, the people have shown to be incompetent of having such trust.
             The Nazi party was not doing well during the "Golden years of the Republic"; they could easily be labeled only a splinter party. In fact the Nazis' had lost votes from December of 1924 when they had only 3% to May of 1928 when they had only 2.6%. When you take into account that right after the depression hit in September 1930 the Nazi party jumped into the political scene with 18.3% of the vote, then this clearly shows that they could not gain votes simply on their own merit but needed hard times to expand their vote. The people were looking for a new radical group that would offer a different solution and that was also in protest of the present state of affairs. Germanys' economic welfare and how people reacted to it had nothing to do with faults of the Constitution and everything to do with the rise of the Third Reich.
             The Weimar trusted in the peoples' vote and in the early years of Hitler, the people could not really say that a vote for Hitler was not legitimate. Hitler had the respect of having the Iron Cross 1st Class metal awarded to him for his bravery in World...