Electoral Breakthrough of the Nazis 1930-32

Question 1

What were the political effects of the Depression?

Answer 1

increased fortuned of Anti-Weimar parties like commies and Nazis

Question 2

Nazi seats in 1928

Answer 2

1928 NAzis had 12 seats

Question 3

Nazi seats in 1930

Answer 3

107 seats

Question 4

when did the Nazis have 107 seats?

Answer 4

1930

Question 5

When did the NAzis have 12 seats?

Answer 5

1928

Question 6

When did NAzi support surge

Answer 6

First half of 1932

Question 7

Nazi seats in July 1932

Answer 7

230- largest party

Question 8

What year were the NAzis only 7th largest party?

Answer 8

1928

Question 9

What were the votes for Hindenbrg in the 1932 Presidential elections?

Answer 9

18million votes

Question 10

Votes for Hitler 1932 Presidential Votes?

Answer 10

11 million

Question 11

Who won the 1932 Presidential Elections?

Answer 11

Hindenburg

Question 12

How many seats did the Nazis have in Nov 1932

Answer 12

196 seats

Question 13

When did the Nazis have 196 seats?

Answer 13

Nov 1932

Question 14

Describe Hitler’s Speeches

Answer 14

• took place in late stadiums

- gifted and exceptional orator who tapped into the disillusionment of many with Germany’s new democracy

Question 15

What was ‘Our Last Hope’?

Answer 15

A famous prop poster representing Htler as a saviour, now demo dead and communism threatened

Question 16

What was the aeroplane ‘Fuhrer over GERMANY’ Campaign?

Answer 16

Slogan made by Goebbels. Hitler’s pioneering use of aeroplane travel let him travel across the country quickly so could address several meetings per day. Modern tech fully exploited

Question 17

How did Goebbels create an emotive atmosphere at Nazi rallies to compel support?

Answer 17

He used light, colours, torches, uniform and music to create what Layton (2005a) called a ‘Mass suggestion’ effect

Question 18

who did Nazis use for verbal attacks and as scapegoats?

Answer 18

Weimar govt, communists and Jews

Question 19

Who developed the Volksgemeinschaft people’s community concept?

Answer 19

Goebbels

Question 20

What was the ‘Fuhrer Cult’ that Goebbels established?

Answer 20

depicted HItler as the saviour of Germany

Question 21

Where did Goebbels fail to generate Nazi support and why?

Answer 21

Berlin and other large cities because most workers preferred democrats or Commies, distrusting the Nazis

Question 22

Why was the weimar govt, commies and Jews so effective as people to blame by the Nazis?

Answer 22

many people already distrusted and feared them

Question 23

How were the workers won over by Nazis?

Answer 23

as result of Depression

55% workers who voted Nazi in 1930s were unemployed (esp swayed by Arbeit und Brot promise)

Question 24

Nazis striggled to get support in large ——— centres

Answer 24

industrial

Question 25

Why did the Middle Classes have high levels of support for the Nazis?

Answer 25

Esp after WSC… one problem too many and nazis seemed to have the only real answers

Question 26

How many seats did the communist win in the 1930 elections?

Answer 26

100

Question 27

What was the impact of the communist success in 1930 elections?

Answer 27

Key motivator for people to vote nAzi as NAzi promise to smash communism

Question 28

Who was especially alarmed by communist 1930 electoral success? (3)

Answer 28

Landlords, big businessmen and churches

Question 29

Why did small businesses support the Nazis?

Answer 29

nazis pledge to limit the power of big departmental stores

Question 30

What year were women more likely to vote Nazi than men?

Answer 30

1933

Question 31

Why did many women vote Nazi?

Answer 31

• attracted by Nazi commitment to family values

- some women not resist Hitler’s personal magnetism and allure

Question 32

How much support for Nazis did young people provide 1931?

Answer 32

!931, 61% people who voted Nazi were between 18 and 30

Question 33

Why did so many young people support the Nazis?

Answer 33

• attracted by dynamic and colourful movement
• could join SA or HY which offered fun activities
• some didillusioned as old enough to get job but unable to find any due to depression

Question 34

What was the ‘Farmers revenge’?

Answer 34

18000 lost their farms because of the Great Depression so voted Nazi as revenge against WR

Question 35

What was the ‘Farmers revenge’?

Answer 35

18000 lost their farms because of the Great Depression so voted Nazi as revenge against WR

Question 36

By 1933, Nazis had —-% agricultural vote

Answer 36

52.4%

Question 37

How did Strasser help secure farmer support?

Answer 37

In late 1920s had canvassed a lot of support in rural Northern Germany

Question 38

Which group gave much needed funds for Nazi election campaigns? And eg.

Answer 38

Industrialists

Emil Kirdorff and Frits Thyssen made huge contributions

Question 39

Why did some industrialists vote Nazi?

Answer 39

• feared communism
• relieved to see Hitler tone down socialist aspects Nazism and reassured when Hitler discouraged acts of violence from the SA in late 1920s

Question 40

Which group made Nazis look more respectable even if not generally not vote for them?

Answer 40

Industrialists

Question 41

Who gave their support to Nazis who was also head of Reichsbank?

Answer 41

Hjalmar Schacht

Question 42

Who was Alfred Hugenberg?

Answer 42

Nationalist party leader, newspaper tycoon and head of armaments firm Krupp

Question 43

What was the Harzberg Agreement?

Answer 43

• An agreement between Hitler and Alfred Hugenberg in 1930 launching a common campaign against Weimar Republic and Young Plan
• Hugenberg let Hitler use his newspapers for publicity

Question 44

What was the agreement between Hitler and Alfred Hugenberg called?

Answer 44

Harzberg agreement