1930 Election Flashcards
What percentage of the vote did Nazis win in general election 14 September 1930?
20.8%
What percentage of the vote did the DNVP win in general election 20 May 1928?
14.1%
What percentage of the vote did the DNVP win in general election 14 September 1930?
8.0%
What percentage of the vote did the NSDAP win in the general elction 20 May 1928?
2.6%
What does the collapse of the DNVP vote suggest about the electorate?
middle class voters switched to the nazis after the death of stresseman and general dissatisfaction
What percentage of the vote did the nazis win in general election 31 July 1932?
37.1% largest party in the reichstag
What percentage of the vote did the Nazis win on 6 November 1932?
36.7%
where does a study of regional electoral geography suggest support for nazis during their breakthrough period was weaker?
catholic areas such as bavaria and the rhineland
What does a study of electoral geography focusing on neighbourhoods suggest about support for the Nazis?
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
How could the Nazis claim that they drew their support from all sections of the community- in reference to working class?
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’
What area did the Nazis attract a large following after 1930?
small towns and rural areas of protestant and northern germany
How much had unemployment increased?
1929 1.5 million
1930 3 million
1932 6million
What economic difficulty did those who kept their jobs face?
deflation made wages fall sharply
What was the significance of the economic depression on the Nazi Party vote?
The Nazi’s electoral prospects were transformed above all else by the words economic depression
What were the reason why middle-class voters turned to the Nazis?
a new party untainted by the republic’s failures
Hitler’s charisma
resented the loss of income and savings
fear of communism
What caused middle classes increasing fear of communism?
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
Why did the Nazis reputation for brutality which had previously alienated middle classes now become an asset?
the attraction of the nazis in these circumstances was that they appeared most capable of destroying the KPD
What were the reasons why working class voted for the Nazis?
promises of national revival
vow to provide work and bread
return to stability
Which particular type of working class did the nazis typicallly attract and why?
self-employed skilled workers
outside organised close-knit sub cultures associated with the social democrats and the communist parties
How spectacular was the Nazi breakthrough?
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
What were the reason why the elite voted for the Nazis?
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
What were the reasons why big business voted fro the Nazis?
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
What does the expression’conquest of the masses’ suggest?
the manipulation and seduction of millions into voting for the nazi party in disregard for their own best interests
What inevitable conclusion does the concept of the ‘conquest of the masses’ lead to?
to vote for the nazis was an irrational act
