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Reasons for Nazi Electoral Success in March 1933 (Political platform…
Reasons for Nazi Electoral Success
in March 1933
Political platform
Aggressive nationalism
Rejection of TOV
Full employment (esp. during GD)
Repudiation of foreign debts
Promotion of Pan-Germanism
Unification of Old German Empire and return of Germans in:
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Poland
Propaganda
Joseph Goebbels 1928-
Jews, Bolsheviks & Liberals as scapegoats
Dolchstoßlegende (stab in back)
Opposition parties
weak and divided
No party could form a majority
Uniforms, insignia & salutes
Combined with rallies
Sense of purpose and identity
Industrialists and entrepreneurs
supported free enterprise
feared communism
Krupp, Thyssen & Bayer financed the party
Hitler as a politician
Oratory skill
Presence of a 'strong leader'
Mein Kampf 1m copies by 1933
Offer of hope & past glory set against economic and political chaos of Weimar Republic