Conditions for Hitlers Rise - Social Division

Question 1

Regional loyalties

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

Separatism Events throughout

Answer 2

• Red terror (Spacasist uprising)
• White terror (Kapt Putsch)
• Beerhall push

Question 3

Religious separation

Answer 3

Around 2/3 catholic and 1/3 protestant which caused social, political and ideological tensions.

Question 4

Class issues

Answer 4

• Elite still had power even with democracy - power was widespread
• Split between more liberal people of the republic and the conservative classes.

Question 5

Urban class

Answer 5

Supported political left from SPD to KPD (communism)

Question 6

Results of tension

Answer 6

Made a very un-unified country with violence between left and right or other sides.

Question 7

How the Nazi’s capitalised on all of this

Answer 7

• Hitler presented himself as ‘the solution’
• Party centred around national unity (just what the country needed)

Question 8

Why did divided people support Nazism

Answer 8

• 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.

Question 9

Use of anti-semitism

Answer 9

• 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.