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1
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What did Hitler write whilst in jail after the Munich Putsch?

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Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

2
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What key change did Hitler make during his time in jail?

A

He decided the Nazis needed to take power democratically - not violently

3
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The Nazis fought their first election in May 1924. How many seats did they win?

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32 seats

4
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How many seats did the Nazis win in 1928?

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12 seats

5
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How many seats did the Nazis win in July 1932?

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230 seats

6
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How many seats did the Nazis win in November 1932?

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196 seats

7
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After the Nazis won 32 seats in the May 1924 elections, what did Hitler establish?

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Local networks of Nazis such as The Hitler Youth and the Nazi Students’ League

8
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Which key event allowed the Nazis to dramatically increase the number of seats they had in the Reichstag?

A

The Great Depression

9
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What happened to the Nazis’ vote share at the end of 1932?

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It began to decline (230 seats down to 196 seats)

10
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Which other extremist party also gained during the Great Depression?

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The Communist Party

11
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Between 1924-28, the Nazis were appealing to workers, but in 1928 their poor election showing convinced them they needed to look elsewhere. Which groups did they target?

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  • peasant farmers in northern Germany
  • middle-class shopkeepers
  • small business people in rural towns
12
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Who did not - despite the Nazis’ name - generally support the Nazis?

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Workers. They mostly supported the Social Democratic Party (SPD) or, sometimes, the Communists

13
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Roughly what percentage of Germany’s population lived in rural areas?

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35%

14
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What contrast did the Nazis emphasise between the cities and rural areas?

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  • They depicted cities as decadent, immoral and crime-ridden (and blamed the Jews for this)
  • They depicted rural areas as being morally pure - where ‘true Germans’ (Aryans) could live a simple and honest life
15
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What did the Nazis promise rural peasants?

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To help agriculture if they came to power

16
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What did Hitler enlarge in 1925?

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The SA (Brownshirts)

17
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When did Hitler enlarge the SA?

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In 1925

18
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What percentage of the SA came from the unemployed?

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About 55%

19
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What were many SA members?

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Ex-servicemen who had fought in the war

20
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What did Hitler also establish in 1925?

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The SS - Hitler’s elite, personal bodyguard who were fanatically loyal to Hitler

21
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Who did Hitler put in charge of Nazi propaganda?

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Joseph Goebbels

22
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What did Goebbels believe about appealing to ‘the masses’?

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That it was more effective to appeal to people’s emotions (as opposed to their reason)

23
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What forms of propaganda did the Nazis use?

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  • posters
  • leaflets
  • films
  • radio broadcasts
  • rallies
24
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Why was there no electoral breakthrough in 1928, despite all the hard work of the Nazis to change their strategy?

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Germany was prospering under Stresemann. Few Germans were interested in extreme parties.

25
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How many members did the Nazis have by 1928?

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100,000

26
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Was state was the Nazi Party in by 1929?

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Although they had relatively little support, they were highly organised around a charismatic and emotive speaker - Hitler.
They were well-positioned to seize the opportunity presented to them by the Wall St. Crash and Great Depression

27
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What did American journalist William Shirer say about Nazism in 1928?

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“Nazism appears to be a dying cause…One scarcely hears of Hitler except as the butt of jokes.”