Support for the Nazis

Question 1

Youth/Women

Answer 1

Young people liked Hitler’s speeches and his ambitions for the future, Nazi propaganda claimed that they were the best for people’s families
Secure young people’s future loyalty, encouraged large families

Question 2

Farmers

Answer 2

Hitler promised protection from communists (confiscated land) and 1928, changed rules to only take land from Jews

Question 3

Big Businesses

Answer 3

Industrialists were scared of communism
Wealthy businesses men could donate to the party, Alfred Hugenburg (National party leader, newspaper tycoon) let Goebbels use his papers for propaganda.

Question 4

Middle Class

Answer 4

The Great Depression meant they had lost everything, wanted traditional Germany and they were scared of communists
Contained professional people, likely to vote, respectable and maybe donations

Question 5

Working Class

Answer 5

They were promised ‘work and bread’, liked traditional German values and ‘German Workers’ Party’
Biggest group of voters and possible recruits for the SA