I'm watching the documentary "Hitler - A Career" right now on Netflix.
I primarily wondered about the economics of the Nazi government, but it seems that question has been answered in another thread.
So my only remaining question is this: How on Earth did the Nazis find money to fund themselves before Hitler was appointed Chancellor?
I mean, the SA was a large political army, and the Nazis held many huge rallies that must have cost insane money. In particular, the "Hitler Over Germany" tour must have cost an insane amount of money.
It'd be like if the Democrats funded their own army, held DNC huge conventions every week, and bought extremely expensive vehicles to chauffeur all their candidates (Hitler apparently liked Mercedes Benz vehicles).
So a key aspect of the Nazi party was its ability to pursuade the German public to its own opinion, and as their opinion was to create a strong German economy this became simply 'preaching to the converted' for large businesses. Records show in the Munich trials that Nuremburg industrialist Emil Kirdorf gave the Nazi Party $20,000, which while seeming small today would have been a significant sum before the Great Depression. Kirdorf himself stated "In 1923 I came into contact for the first time with the National-Socialist movement .... I first heard the Fuehrer in the Essen Exhibition Hall. His clear exposition completely convinced and overwhelmed me". So if the Nazi Party were able to easily convince one large businessman, it is highly likely many others also contributed to his campaign, with evidence of Putzi Hanf-staengl (a close friend of FD Roosevelt) also contributing large sums.