How was Hitler and the Nazi Party able to rise to power in Germany?

Failures of the democratic system in Germany. Weimar republic worked on a system of proportional representation. This was a system that led to continuous coalition governments. It was very difficult to get a majority in the reichstag. Also this system allowed for small extremist parties to come to the forefront, like the Nazi party. For example, in the May 1928 election, an election where the Nazi party received only 2.6% of the vote, a grand coalition was formed. The Social democratic party, the centre party, the German democratic party and the German’s people party, all ruled Germany together in a coalition. This government were in charge during the Great depression. this event severely affected Germany as millions faced unemployment and starvation. The current government was seen as being weak and unable to save Germany from the miserable economic situation they were in. Adolf Hitler on the other hand, was a strong and charismatic leader who promised to lead Germany from the economic depression, and this, combined with Josef Goebbels propaganda machine, drew many Germans to the Nazi party. The 25 point programme, declared by Hitler, promised to restore German culture, tear up the humiliating Treaty of Versailles, stop the threat of Communism coming from the USSR, put German people back into work and restore Germany to the world power it once was. A deadlock between the members of the grand coalition in 1930, enabled the Reich Chancellor Bruning to persuade the German president, Hindenburg to dissolve the coalition and call a new election. Bruning was a member of the centre party and wanted to create a government that exclude social democrats, communists and nazis. From that 1930 election until 1932, the Bruning government repeatedly used Article 48 to dissolve the governments and to have new elections. Article 48 was a decree that allowed the german government to govern without parliamentary consent, which was supposed to be for emergencies. in 1932, Hindenburg dismissed Bruning and replaced him with Von Papen. The July 1932 elections, gave the Nazi party 37.3% of the vote and it became the largest political party in Germany. Von papen was forced to resign after being unable to gain a majority to govern with and was replaced by Von Schleicher. A new election was held in November 1932, where the Nazis received 33.1%, losing votes, whereas the communist party gained votes, leading it to receive around 16.9%. Hindenburg believed that Hitler was the only way to stop a communist take over, and very naively decided to give control to Hitler and rule through him. Hitler was given the role of Chancellor on January 30th, 1933. After the death of Hindenburg in 1935, Hitler merged the two offices of Chancellor and President to become Führer of Germany.