3.4. Appeal Of Nazism

Question 1

What percentage of the vote did the Nazis receive in 1928?

Answer 1

2.6%

Question 2

What percentage of the vote did Hitler receive in the 1930 and July 1932 elections?

Answer 2

18. 3%

37. 3%

Question 3

What percentage of the vote did the Nazis receive in the 1st and 2nd Presidential ballots of 1932?

Answer 3

30. 1%

36. 8%

Question 4

Which 3 groups were most over represented in Nazi membership and give percentages?

Answer 4

White Collar workers: 21% of membership, 12% of society
Self employed + artisans: 17% of membership, 10% of society
Civil servants: 6.5% of membership, 4.8% of society

Question 5

Which 2 groups were most under represented in Nazi party membership?

Answer 5

Workers: 33% of membership, 46% of society
Peasants: 13% of membership, 21% of society

Question 6

Which age group was most over represented in Nazi membership?

Answer 6

18-30: 62% of membership, 31% of society

Question 7

Which age group was far less likely to be Nazis supporters?

Answer 7

41+

Question 8

What 4 factors were key to Nazi appeal?

Answer 8

Propaganda
Hitler
Communism
Ideology

Question 9

Name 2 Nazi publications (propaganda)

Answer 9

Dur Sturmer (magazine)
Volkischer Beobachter (party paper)

Question 10

What was the Nazi slogan for the 1932 presidential election? (Propaganda)

Answer 10

“Hitler Uber Deutschland”

Question 11

Where did the Nazis hold their mass rallies? (Propaganda)

Answer 11

Nuremberg

Question 12

What is the Volksgemeinchaft?

Answer 12

Racial community

Question 13

What did Hitler think about war and conflict

Answer 13

That it was completely natural, and that whoever won was right to do so. This is based on his social Darwinism

Question 14

How could Hitler claim to be national- socialist and yet anti-socialist at the same time.

Answer 14

Society would come together as a unified race thereby guaranteeing everyone’s adherence to the general good as it would be their good also. By ridding Germany of different racial factions, everyone would be United in common goal, with the pursuit of this not needing confiscation of property.

Question 15

What was the Nazis effective manifesto?

Answer 15

25 point programme

Question 16

What was the Fuhrerprinzip?

Answer 16

That Germany needed a strong leader who could unite the country, protect the people as a Leviathan, and defeat Jewish democracy

Question 17

Give 2 examples of strong leadership from Hitler before he became Chancellor.

Answer 17

Faced down Bamberg rebels in 1925
Refused mergers with other parties
Won round former opponents such as Goebbels.

Question 18

Which 3 states was Nazi support strongest?

Answer 18

Saxony-Anhalt (40.9% in 1932)
Prussia (36%)
Bavaria (32.5%)

Question 19

What was clever about the range of Nazi ideology?

Answer 19

It was wide, meaning people from both left and right supported the party. This is embodied in their name, National-Socialists

Question 20

Who was one of the main businessmen to support the Nazis when he joined the party in 1932?

Answer 20

Fritz Theyssen, chairman of United Steelworks

Question 21

What was Hitler’s overall ambition in foreign policy?

Answer 21

To reverse Versailles

To gain Lebensraum

Question 22

When did Hitler make his speech to 650 businessmen and what did he NOT say?

Answer 22

January 1932 at the Industry Club in Dusseldorf. He did not mention anti-Semitism.