How and why did the Nazi party come to power in 1933?
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- How and why did the Nazi party come to power in 1933?
- May 1928 election - 2.6% of vote, 12 seats in Reichstag.
- July 1932 election - 37.8% of vote, 230 seats in Reichstag.
- Effect of the Great Depression.
- American loans called back.
- After the Wall Street Crash, America gave Germany 90 days to start to re-pay money loaned to her.
- Companies throughout Germany bankrupt.
- September 1930 - 3,000,000 people unemployed.
- Savings lost, banks closed.
- USA, the largest purchaser of German exports, put up tariff barriers to protect its own companies. Germany endured a sharp downturn in export sales.
- By 1932, German industrial production had fallen to just 58% of its 1928 levels.
- Fear of Communism.
- Grew out of Spartacist movement.
- KPD hoped that the unemployed working class would blame business leaders and those who supported a capitalist society.
- 1919 uprising.
- Grew out of Spartacist movement.
- Appeal of Hitler and propaganda.
- Policies.
- Opposed to Communism.
- Social policies appealed to many.
- Claimed he would abolish the Treaty of Versailles.
- NSDAP 25 points.
- Credible right wing alternative.
- Belief in the supremacy of the German race.
- Joseph Goebbels.
- 'Hitler über Deutschland'.
- Hitler Youth - In January 1933, only 50,000 members, but by the end of the year this figure had increased to more than 2 million.
- 'People's receiver'.
- Policies.
- Backstairs intrigue.
- Hitler's tentative deal with Von Papen.
- Reichstag Fire.
- Hitler blamed Communists.
- May 1928 election - 2.6% of vote, 12 seats in Reichstag.
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