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Factors that attracted voters to support the Nazis - Coggle Diagram
Factors that attracted voters to support the Nazis
Economic factors
No answers to the
continuing economic crisis
although Brüning´s cabinet tried to appease it through cutting spending, reducing the levels of welfare payments, and increasing contributions to the unemployment insurance scheme
About a 1/3 of unemployed families had barely any income at all and those who had a little feared that they too would soon face destitution.
Only the Nazis were prepared to pledge themselves to provide work for all Germans, without being too specific about how they would achieve this goal
Nationalist appeal
People were attracted by calls for national regeneration and for an end to class-based politics
“No longer parties but only Germans”
Volkgemeinschaft
A “people´s community”
Denunciations of the Treaty of Versailles and of the “November Criminals” who signed it
Their pledge that they would work to restore German honour and Germany´s rightful position in Europe.
Fear of Communism
Large numbers of people were scared stiff about the emergence of workers soviets and a Bolshevik type regime in Germany
The Nazis emphasised their total opposition to Communism and to class-based politics
To prove it they conducted street attacks on alleged Communists
They also linked together the twin threats to Germany of a world Jewish conspiracy and of revolutionary Bolshevism, and pledged that they would combat both vigorously and unceasingly
The Role of Hitler
Hitler´s myth (how voters perceived him)
He was a German who had fought bravely for his adopted country in the First World War and had twice been rewarded with the Iron Cross
A selfless patriot, concerned only to rescue the country from the crisis into which it had fallen after 1918
He was not a corrupt politician, but a man of the people, pledging himself to rid Germany of political in-fighting, bribery and self-interest.
Considerable charisma as a performer
An extremely eloquent public speaker
A Party of the Future
Colour, purpose and unity
Their emblems and uniforms triggered nostalgia of the pre-war period and war itself.
Disassociation of the Weimar government
They appear to have attracted others who were keen to see the “lefties” being beaten up
Modern propaganda and sense of theatre
Nazi Organisation
Built up formidable election machinery
Had financial solvency
From membership and small individual donations