Conditions for Hitlers Rise - Social Division Flashcards
1
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Regional loyalties
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- People more loyal to region than country.
- Shown by 1928 votes.
- North and South voted nationals
- East and West voted Catholic.
- SPD in centre of country
2
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Separatism Events throughout
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- Red terror (Spacasist uprising)
- White terror (Kapt Putsch)
- Beerhall push
3
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Religious separation
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Around 2/3 catholic and 1/3 protestant which caused social, political and ideological tensions.
4
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Class issues
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- Elite still had power even with democracy - power was widespread
- Split between more liberal people of the republic and the conservative classes.
5
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Urban class
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Supported political left from SPD to KPD (communism)
6
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Results of tension
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Made a very un-unified country with violence between left and right or other sides.
7
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How the Nazi’s capitalised on all of this
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- Hitler presented himself as ‘the solution’
- Party centred around national unity (just what the country needed)
8
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Why did divided people support Nazism
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- Offered stability, law and order.
- Dynamism - Would use force to resolve things.
- Lost faith in democracy and comparatively Hitler looked much better.
- Offered clear recovery and solutions.
9
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Use of anti-semitism
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- Painted Jews/Commuists as cause for economic issues and treaties
- Gave Germans someone to blame for economic crisis.
- Common enemy
- Promotes unity together against the Jews and communists.
