Was Hitler's dictatorship established by legal means'. The career of Adolf Hitler was marked by a spectacular rise to power. He went from being a nobody in the streets of Vienna to the supreme leader of one of the most powerful nations on earth. Hitler came to power through a combination of legal means and backroom politics. The events leading up to the rise of the Nazis and Hitler are prime examples of the myriad …showed first 75 words of 1065 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1065 total…was legal and what wasn't" is another topic in itself. After all Hitler was using the presidential decree to do almost what he liked but this is what the presidential decree was. Hitler used the circumstances in Germany to his advantage to exploit this and was successful. At times what he did was illegal for example have people murdered but the same problem arises about whether this came under the scope of the presidential decree.