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2.1 Legacy of Versailles and weaknesses of Weimar
Article 48 too many weak parties
War guilt, loss of land, reparation, disarmament...
2.2 Nazi Party in 1928
SA violence
Overall losses in 1028 elections (12 seats)
Gau with Gauleiters for each region
Party membership reorganised
2.3 Impact of Great Depression, Elections and governments 1928-33
Unemployed - 6m (benefits designed for 800,000 people)
Decline in world trade by 70% 1929 -32
Fall in wages
Business and farmer bankrupt
Industrial production in 1932 40% of 1929
Muller Chancellor from May 1928
Bruning 1930
1930s election Nazis made a major gain in seats (107)
July 1932 - 230 seats
Nov 1932 - 196
Jan 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor.
2.4 Communism
1932 - 360, 000 members
Encouraged elites to support extreme right
Appealed to workers (50% of the population)
Appealed to young unemployed (Red Front)
Leader Thalmann controlled Red Districts
2.5 Rise and appeal of Nazism, role of propaganda and Hitler;
Brown shirts for SA
Nazi Salute
Newspaper "Der Sturmer"
Swastika
Mass rallies (Munich 1922)
Goebbels had of propaganda
2.6 Hindenburg;
Died in 1934
Allowed use of rule by decree
Appointed Hitler in 1933 (wasn't keen on doing this in 1932)
Right Wing.
2.7 Papen, Schleicher and 'backstairs' intrigue
Bruning led Centre Party 1932
Known as the Hunger Chancellor for not doing anything in the depression
Forced to resign by Hindenburg
Papen became Chancellor in 1932 (failed to create a stable government), he offered Hitler Vice Chancellor.
2.8 Reichstag Fire;
Feb 1933
Nazis blamed it on a Dutch communist
Nazis used it to their power
Led to the Decree for the Protection of People and State.
2.9 Election of March 1933;
Propaganda used to intimidate opponents
Very high vote turnout
Nazi slogan "The battle against Marxism"
Nazis get 44% of the vote and Nationalist allies get 8%.
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