Why Were the Nazis Successful in Elections In The 1930's.

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Why Were the Nazis Successful in Elections In The 1930’s There are many reasons why Nazi support increases so drastically in the 1930’s ranging from the sheer power of Hitler’s speeches to the dramatic increase in depression throughout the period of the Wall Street crash and the Nazi take over. In this essay I hope to put across these points and many others. Previous to the boom of Nazi voted in 1932 Nazi votes had been steadily increasing however with many parties an increase as dramatic this would have taken many years but for the Nazis the increase was phenomenal between the years of 1928 and 1930 Nazi votes had risen 16.3% from a measly 12 seats in the Reichstag to a great portion of 107 seats only just behind the biggest proportion held
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by the Social democrats. This had happened in 2 years. There are only few reasons that can explain such a dramatic turn in votes. One inexcusable reason that lies in direct linkage to Nazi votes is the unemployment rate. During the years a great gift had been given to the Nazis a great depression had hit Germany hard, harder than most other countries unemployment during this period of great depression had risen greatly between 1928 it had more than doubles from 1,391,000 to 3,076,000. This allowed the Nazis to reassure the worrying unemployed the Nazis promised work on road building ...

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