Who Voted for the Nazis and Why?

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For years historians have been obsessed with the question who voted Nazi? , this is mainly because of how incredible the Nazis rise to power actually was. The Nazis came to power only fourteen years after the party had been founded, this was particularly miraculous because the Nazis were an extremist group and managed to get elected into power in the notorious system of the Weimar government, known for its difficult democratic system of government.

Post war historians believed that there was a typical Nazi voter. This person was a young, middle class, male but historians soon realised that it would have been impossible for the Nazis to get to power to the degree they did with these votes only. Analysing this period more deeply historians found there was infact a wide spectrum of people voting Nazi.

Extremist government was probably inevitable. After the Wall Street crash Germany's economy began its decline once more because of it's strong dependence on America, the Dawes plan for example. For most Germans this was the second depression they had been affected by. Luckily for Hitler he had opposed the Dawes plan during the referendum for its acceptance, many peopl

People living in areas where land had been taken away in the Treaty of Versailles also voted Nazi. The Nazi party promised to reverse the Treaty of Versailles, which appealed to many people in areas such as the Sudetenland, the Rhur region and Prussia especially. Upper Silesia had been given to Poland and even though their population was mainly Catholic, who tended to vote for their own party and not the Nazis, Z (Centre party), the votes were still high in this region.

To the hungry, unemployed the Nazis promised "Work and Bread" this slogan was geared to the people hit worst by the depression, this made Hitler look as though he understood what the people wanted. Part of his propaganda programme included posters of workers looking happy at work with the captions "we're for Adolf Hitler" workers believed that Hitler could solve the unemployment problems.

Agricultural workers who were being badly affected economically by the falling prices were offered a good quality of life under a Nazi government. Hitler promoted the idea of 'blood and soil ' and promised to wipe the farmers debts of which there were many, which again appealed to the agricultural workers.

Historians now realise that the typical Nazi voter does not exist; they are obsessed with finding out who voted Nazi because of the terrible atrocities that came about under Hitler. There are still many ideas over how the Nazis gained so much support in such little time, some say it was the emotional appeal the Nazis gave, others claim it was because of the economic crisis' others say the Nazis would never have come to power without its propaganda.

In built up industrial areas there were not many Nazi votes because people tende

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