In the release of Hitler the press had played a big part. Gradually the press was turning pro-Hitler. It declared Hitler innocent and kept constant pressure on Bavarian government to reconsider the sentence to Hitler. The people were also with Hitler. For the masses he was a hero.
But in his absence his party had suffered badly. Hitler had to resign from the presidentship of the party when he was sent to the jail. Many other important members had left the party.
After the release from jail Hitler acted with insight and soberly. Earlier he used to lose cool at slightest provocation. He gave up that habit. Hitler had learnt to exercise control over himself.
He got down earnestly to the business of rebuilding the party. First of all he won back those who were dissatisfied with the style of his functioning and the arrogant nature. Gradually he again began to emerge as an acceptable leader. Hitler was now taking every step very carefully.
March, 1930 saw Dr. Brunning become the new Chancellor of Germany. In July his government introduced a resolution in the parliament suggesting the measure to raise funds to pay war damages to France and its allies as per Versai Treaty. The resolution was rejected.
Brunning government was in trouble.
Hitler was quick to take advantage of the situation. He went to farmers, traders and industrialists besides the common folk to convince them that his Nazi Party was the only organisation fit to rule the country. He promised that if his party came to power Versai Treaty would be thrown in the waste paper basket, foreign debts imposed on Germany as penalties would be rejected and for security German would again be made a military power. He also assured that damage suffered by Germany during the war would be repaired and compensated at war footing.
Hitler’s nationalist agenda attracted every section of the German society. Many began to look up to the Nazi Party as the only hope for Germany.
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