Many workers turned to the rising Nazi party because of the government taking away welfare and making life much harder for the lower class. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party in 1933 where a majority of seats in the German parliament was held by the Nazi party the current chancellor of Germany not wanting the country to turn into a civil war offered the position of vice chancellor to Hitler, which Hitler refused and said that he would accept becoming sole chancellor of Germany under the title of Fuhrer.