History - Rise Of The Nazis

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Nazi membership increases

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Between 1925 and 1925: 400%

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May 1928 Nazi result

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2.6% = 12 seats

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Nazi local success 1928

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Thuringia, brok 10% barrier, won 11.3%

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First Nazi proffessional body

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October 1929: Association of National Socialist Jurists

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Result of local propaganda

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1930: Sazony: 14.4%

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Wall St Crash

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1929
Industrial production fell by 42%
3 million unemployed
KPD vote increased

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Nationalist Opposition

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Cohesion of Right
5.8m won / 21m needed
Membership grew to 130,000 by the end of 1929

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September 1930 - Nazi Breakthrough

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2.6% to 18.3%
400,000 members
Second Largest Party

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September 1930 - decline of other parties

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DNVP vote halved
A third of DNVP voters in 1928 voted Nazi in 1930
DDP and DVP down
SDP down
KPD up

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1931 Nazi local elections

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averaged about 40%

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Decline of Reichstag in Great Depression

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Days sat
1930: 94
1931: 42
1932: 13

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Growth of Article 48 in Great Depression

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1930: 5
1931: 44
1932: 66

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Great Depression

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50,000 businesses went bankrupt 1930-1932
by 1932: 6 million unemployed (1/3)
By 1932, industrial production's value dropped to 40% of its 1929 level

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KPD benefit from Great Depression

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Membership grew from 117k in 1929 to 360k in 1932

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1932 Presidential Election

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Hindenburg 53%
Hitler 36.8%

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Reichstag Election July 1932

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NSDAP: 37.3% - largest party
Nationalists: 5.9%
DDP and DVP: 2.2% between them
SDP further decline to 21.6%
KPD increased to 14.3%
30% of Nazi gains form splinter parties

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Importance of July 1932 Reichstag Election

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Only 39.5% voted for pro-democratic parties
NSDAP + KPD = 51.6%

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November 1932

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Nazi vote decrease from 37.3% to 33.1%

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March 1933 Election

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Nazi 33.1% to 43.9%
Nearly 2/3 voted anti-Weimar
(In 1919 3/4 had backed Weimar)

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Enabling Act

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1933
passed by 444 to 93

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Nuremberg Rallies

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1929: 40,000
Documented in Triumph of the Will

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Nazi trained speakers

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Over 6000 had passed through their training school by 1933

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Nazi finance

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Before the March 1933 election, secured 3m marks from a group of 20 industrialists

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Nazi Membership between 1930 and 1931

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Grew from 390,000 to 800,000

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Reasons for joining Nazi Party

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Only 14% Anti-Semitism
^Not the reason for mass support

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Nazis and the Young

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Of the young adults that joined parties: 61% joined the Nazis