The Presidential Election Of 1932

Question 1

How did Hitler use modern technology to increase support during the presidential election do 1932?

Answer 1

• using an areoplane
• Hitler was able to speak at as many as five cities per day

Question 2

How did Goebbels boost support for Hitler ?

Answer 2

• made sure there where mass rallies
• Nazi message is spread but also made sure Hitler was recognized as a national figure
• using modern tech like films or radio

Question 3

Why did Hindenburg fail and what happened next ?

Answer 3

• he didn’t campaign much
• fails by a slight margin to win more than 50 percent of the votes so there was a second round
• initially getting 18,650,00 votes then in the second round 19,360,00 votes

Question 4

What happened in the second round for the votes ?

Answer 4

-Hitler wins a large number of votes in each round
- Goebbels presented the defeat as a victory because of the large number of votes

Question 5

How did the Nazis get financial support and why did they need it ?

Answer 5

• couldn’t do succeeded without the backing of the financiers
• 1932, Reichstag election ,such as 600,000 copies of the Nazi economic programme produced and distributed in the July Reichstag election

Question 6

Why did big industrialist help the Nazis ? What where some of their name s

Answer 6

• feared communism and also concerned about the growth of trade Union power
• they knew Hitler hated communism
• Thyssen and Krupp and Bosch all give funds to the Nazi party

Question 7

How did one industrialist (what’s his name) help the Nazis in 1932 ?

Answer 7

Alfred Hugenbrug a newspaper tycoon
Allows for printing of Nazi articles which attacked Brünig
Nationwide campaign against Weimar