In what ways did the unemployed and Jews react in different ways to the ideas and promises of the Nazis in the late 1920s and the early 1930s?
The late 1920s, early 1930s were significant for the Nazis, unemployed and Jews.
Many unemployed people started to listen to the ideas and policies of the Nazis in the late 1920s because in 1928 the Wall Street Crash occurred and the world went into a depression. The number of unemployed people in Germany increased to 6 million in the summer of 1930 and nobody knew how to cope. The Nazi Party expressed ideas about how to cope with the depression and naturally people listened, turning to the party that would help provide them with food for the table and money for the family.
All this extra support from the public was vital for the Nazis and they won 6.4 million votes and 107 seats in the September elections in 1930 compared to the 12 seats they had in 1928.
Not all the unemployed had the same view, as some people were deterred by several of the anti-Semitist policies that Hitler used in his speeches. During the depression the communist party grew enormously in popularity because many of the unemployed thought that their violent means of beating the bosses was better than the Nazi's peaceful policies because they wanted equality and the country's money shared evenly throughout the people.
The depression didn't just affect the working class people, many business owners suffered great financial losses when their shops were closed down from people not being able to afford luxuries. Many civil servants such as doctors or politicians suffered wage cuts as well because the majority of tax money was being spent on unemployment benefit due to the critical number of people without jobs or working short time.
There were ideas and promises of the Nazis that might have attracted the attention of the unemployed and Jews.
The ideas of Hitler were outlined in his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle), which was written in 1924 after the failure of his Munich Putsch, they were;
) The Führer principle: This was the idea that there should be a single leader with complete power rather than a democracy where power is divided among several bodies.
The late 1920s, early 1930s were significant for the Nazis, unemployed and Jews.
Many unemployed people started to listen to the ideas and policies of the Nazis in the late 1920s because in 1928 the Wall Street Crash occurred and the world went into a depression. The number of unemployed people in Germany increased to 6 million in the summer of 1930 and nobody knew how to cope. The Nazi Party expressed ideas about how to cope with the depression and naturally people listened, turning to the party that would help provide them with food for the table and money for the family.
All this extra support from the public was vital for the Nazis and they won 6.4 million votes and 107 seats in the September elections in 1930 compared to the 12 seats they had in 1928.
Not all the unemployed had the same view, as some people were deterred by several of the anti-Semitist policies that Hitler used in his speeches. During the depression the communist party grew enormously in popularity because many of the unemployed thought that their violent means of beating the bosses was better than the Nazi's peaceful policies because they wanted equality and the country's money shared evenly throughout the people.
The depression didn't just affect the working class people, many business owners suffered great financial losses when their shops were closed down from people not being able to afford luxuries. Many civil servants such as doctors or politicians suffered wage cuts as well because the majority of tax money was being spent on unemployment benefit due to the critical number of people without jobs or working short time.
There were ideas and promises of the Nazis that might have attracted the attention of the unemployed and Jews.
The ideas of Hitler were outlined in his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle), which was written in 1924 after the failure of his Munich Putsch, they were;
) The Führer principle: This was the idea that there should be a single leader with complete power rather than a democracy where power is divided among several bodies.
