1930 Election

Question 1

What percentage of the vote did Nazis win in general election 14 September 1930?

Answer 1

20.8%

Question 2

What percentage of the vote did the DNVP win in general election 20 May 1928?

Answer 2

14.1%

Question 3

What percentage of the vote did the DNVP win in general election 14 September 1930?

Answer 3

8.0%

Question 4

What percentage of the vote did the NSDAP win in the general elction 20 May 1928?

Answer 4

2.6%

Question 5

What does the collapse of the DNVP vote suggest about the electorate?

Answer 5

middle class voters switched to the nazis after the death of stresseman and general dissatisfaction

Question 6

What percentage of the vote did the nazis win in general election 31 July 1932?

Answer 6

37.1% largest party in the reichstag

Question 7

What percentage of the vote did the Nazis win on 6 November 1932?

Answer 7

36.7%

Question 8

where does a study of regional electoral geography suggest support for nazis during their breakthrough period was weaker?

Answer 8

catholic areas such as bavaria and the rhineland

Question 9

What does a study of electoral geography focusing on neighbourhoods suggest about support for the Nazis?

Answer 9

Nazis had quite a lot of success in winning the support of the working class 
in deprived district of berlin 1/5 of voters were supporting the nazis

Question 10

How could the Nazis claim that they drew their support from all sections of the community- in reference to working class?

Answer 10

the majority of the working class remained loyal to either the SPD or KPD but a significant minority within it did not

thus they were allegedly a ‘people’s party’

Question 11

What area did the Nazis attract a large following after 1930?

Answer 11

small towns and rural areas of protestant and northern germany

Question 12

How much had unemployment increased?

Answer 12

1929 1.5 million
1930 3 million
1932 6million

Question 13

What economic difficulty did those who kept their jobs face?

Answer 13

deflation made wages fall sharply

Question 14

What was the significance of the economic depression on the Nazi Party vote?

Answer 14

The Nazi’s electoral prospects were transformed above all else by the words economic depression

Question 15

What were the reason why middle-class voters turned to the Nazis?

Answer 15

a new party untainted by the republic’s failures
Hitler’s charisma
resented the loss of income and savings
fear of communism

Question 16

What caused middle classes increasing fear of communism?

Answer 16

between 1928 and 1932 the number of people voting for the KPD increased from 3 million to 5 million

the paramilitaries of the red front fighters league were an ever more visible presence in the streets

Question 17

Why did the Nazis reputation for brutality which had previously alienated middle classes now become an asset?

Answer 17

the attraction of the nazis in these circumstances was that they appeared most capable of destroying the KPD

Question 18

What were the reasons why working class voted for the Nazis?

Answer 18

promises of national revival
vow to provide work and bread
return to stability

Question 19

Which particular type of working class did the nazis typicallly attract and why?

Answer 19

self-employed skilled workers

outside organised close-knit sub cultures associated with the social democrats and the communist parties

Question 20

How spectacular was the Nazi breakthrough?

Answer 20

Nazi support was a mile wide but an inch deep
Helmuth Gerlach if the sun shines once more on the german economy hitler’s votes will melt away

nazis were operating in conditions favourable to them

Question 21

What were the reason why the elite voted for the Nazis?

Answer 21

as early as 1927 some elements among the elites had supported national socialism e.g. the junkers organisation ‘the reichslandbund’ had been infiltrated by the Nazis

Question 22

What were the reasons why big business voted fro the Nazis?

Answer 22

businessmen thought they would be protected by the Nazis
attracted by economic self-sufficiency
and rearmament programme
however did not support nazis in large number because the activities of the left wing of the party alienated them

Question 23

What does the expression’conquest of the masses’ suggest?

Answer 23

the manipulation and seduction of millions into voting for the nazi party in disregard for their own best interests

Question 24

What inevitable conclusion does the concept of the ‘conquest of the masses’ lead to?

Answer 24

to vote for the nazis was an irrational act

Question 25

Why must we not overemphasise the importance of propaganda?

Answer 25

to overemphasise the importance of propaganda is to diminish the failure of the weimar system to solve prevailing economic and social probelems and of political oppnents of the NSDAP to provide viable alternatives