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Factors that attracted voters to support the Nazis - Coggle Diagram
Factors that attracted voters to support the Nazis
The Role of Hitler
Hitler was an eloquent public speaker who had the power to arouse an audience to a frenzy of approval for his message.
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.
He was a selfless patriot, concerned only to rescue the country from the crisis into which it had fallen after 1918.
He also possessed considerable charisma and therefore, managed to portray himself as ordinary, while at the same time being able to arouse interest and attract support.
Economic factors
There were only a few proposal solutions from other parties.
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
The Volkgemeinschaft (a “people´s community”) received strong support.
People were drawn in by aspirations for national rebirth and the end of class politics.
Hitler's denunciations of the Treaty of Versailles and of the “November Criminals”
He showed determination to strive and restore German honor 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.
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 Nazis emphasized their total opposition to Communism and to class-based politics, underlining this message with street attacks on alleged Communists.
A party of the future
Party members presented an image of color, purpose, and of unity.
Their emblems and uniforms brought back memories of the pre-war period and of the war itself.
They looked to the future, to the establishment of a government which would bring order instead of chaos, and expansion instead of humiliation.
Nazi organization
The Party had spent a lot of time in the late 1920s establishing branches throughout Germany.
The Nazi party had achieved financial solvency, through the contributions it levied on its membership, which by 1932 had passed the half-million mark.