How did the Great Depression allow for new leaders to consolidate power?

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Hitler took advantage of the Great Depression by using the misery of the German people and the chaos in government to expedite his rise to power. During the election campaign of 1930, just after the start of the depression, he toured the country making vague promises of employment, prosperity, order and German glory to the suffering

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