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Nazi electoral success

Louis Blair English

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Economic depression
negative appeal
- threat of communism +the Jews
  - bulwark against communism
National appeal
- make Germany great
  - change treaty of versailles
- economic recovery
- destroy weimar
- sectional appeal
  - targeted messages
- success amoung middle classes
  - very attractive policies
SA
- propaganda through deed
- fear of an SA seizure of power prompted elite to support hitler as they felt he could control them
- helped recuitment offering 'a warm hearth, a helping hand and a sense of comradeship'
Hitler
- uncomplicated speeches that anyone could understand
- ability to transfix audiences
social democratic party underestimated the hatred of Weimar republic
Hitler actually was elected chancellor through a behind the scenes deal.