To what extent did Nazi support increase during the years 1923-33?

Similarly, Nazi support also struggled between the so called golden years of Germany in 1924-1928. This was understandable as Germany had turned a corner and sorted out their economy difficulties, this meant that German public started to trust the Weimar government a lot more and began to restore their faith in them. Despite this in 1928 the Nazi party membership almost doubled to 100,000 people, still mainly the middle and working class. However, in the 1928 vote they only managed to gain 2% of the national vote, which were probably votes from their traditional membership base with far right wing ideologies. Conclusively, this was put down to fact that the middle class had forgiven the Weimar government after losing everything in the hyperinflation of 1923, therefore the Nazi party lost a huge deal of support. However, towards the end of 1928 the Nazi party received a great deal of unexpected support from Agricultural farmers. This was because the Nazi’s set out and promised protection of agriculture and would use that to benefit the German economy as a whole, leading on to a huge increase of support in the 1930 election where they gained a massive 18% of the national vote. The agricultural vote was a huge source of support for the Nazi party and enhanced their position amongst rival parties who didn’t focus on them as much. This is a huge contrast to 1924-28 where the Nazi’s lost a lot of support due to the failure of the Munich putsch.

The extent of Nazi support increased considerably after they stole the nationalist vote from the DNVP and the middle class vote from the very dominant centre parties, overall making Nazi support increase to much greater extent compared to their failure at the Munich Putsch. From here onwards the Nazi’s had started to do stuff right, this was where the Nazi’s wanted to try and win support and power legally. In 1932, Hitler ran for president and secured a huge 37% of the vote. This made the Nazi’s the largest party in the Reichstag and therefore showing that the Nazi support did increase a great deal. We understand that it was a great deal due to different factors, 30% out of the possible 46% of the working class vote went to the Nazi party. However, the Nazi vote did actually drop after all these highs. It dropped by 4% to 33% in the 1932 second vote due to Hitler’s arrogance to not play his part within the government. However, it soon rose to 44% when Hitler came in to power with the decree for the protection of the people and state, he banned the communist party and boosted his parties support.

Conclusively, this shows that the Nazi support varied throughout the years and you could describe it as a roller coaster of ups and downs, but overall they came out on top by taking supreme control. The Nazi’s started off by gaining 10% of the national vote in their first election and then moved on to a huge 44% of the vote in their last election. This shows that Nazi support did increase a great deal between the two dates however it did also drop at times like the Munich putsch.