Why did the Nazi's become more popular in the years 1929-1933?
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- why did Hitler become more popular in the years 1929-1933?
- Propaganda
- The Hitler Youth Organisation was set up to encourage younger followers. - Camping trips, firing guns, wrestling, reading maps and building campfires.
- The Nazi's took part in parades and rallies to show off power.
- They used radio broadcasts, cinema, news reports, newspapers, leaflets and posters to advertise.
- Rise of the other German extremist parties e.g. communists
- Hitler promised to fight Communism.
- Hitler sent his private army, the stormtroopers (SA) to fight with communist gangs.
- He gained support from the German middle and upper classes because he promised to deal with the communist threats.
- The Great Depression
- Those that didn't listen to him now started to listen to him.
- The Nazi's continued to repeat their core beliefs: 1) Treaty of Versailles is a crime to Germany 2) the Jews should be blamed for economic problems 3) Germany should be reborn as a great and powerful country.
- Their message was still the same as the early 1920's, except now desperate Germans wanted to believe them and vote for them.
- Germans were unhappy with the Weimar government
- Germans wanted an extremist group to get the changes done.
- The government couldn't agree on how to help the unemployed and Bruning used Article 48.
- Bruning wanted to seize rich peoples land to give to poor peasants but the new President Hindenburg withdrew his support as he had a lot of land.
- The appeal of Adolf Hitler
- Hitler had a charasmatic personality.
- He could make people believe that he could be trusted to make Germany a great nation.
- As a powerful and inspiring speaker he was able to fill his audiences with hope.
- Propaganda
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