Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Depression and the Nazis
- Who suffered?
- Farmers
- 1930s, nearly all in debt
- Young people
- 60% of graduates could not get a job
- Businessmen
- Many businesses closed
- Factory workers
- 40% were unemployed by 1932
- Depression weakened the Weimar Republic
- some people that had never voted , just voted to get rid of Weimar
- Chancellor raised taxes and reduces unemployment benefit-not a wise move.
- How did it help the Nazis?
- weak government
- strong leadership needed=Hitler
- Unemployment
- Nazis organized work schemes on the road
- Communists
- Nazi's SA was brutal and dealt with communists violently
- The Nazi party was extremely organised, attractive to people
- Propaganda was carefully done and popular
- The Nazi's always had back-up plans and were very flexible
- Hitler had amazing speaking skills, whipping the crowd into a frenzy