Post on 02-Jan-2016
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Published in his book Mein Kampf – which was a bestseller in Germany
and sold millions
“..the personification of the devil … the symbol of all evil
assumes the shape of the Jew.”
Untermensch
JewsDisabledHomosexualsGypsiesSlavsBlack people
“Just as the night rises against the day, the light and dark are in eternal conflict. So too, is the subhuman the greatest enemy of the dominant species on earth, mankind.”
Political Parties in the Reichstag
May1924
Dec.1924
May1928
Sep.1930
July1932
Communist Party 62 45 54 77 89
Social Democratic
Party100 131 153 143 133
Catholic Centre Party 81 88 78 87 97
Nationalist Party 95 103 73 41 37
Nazi Party 32 14 12 107 230
Other Parties 102 112 121 122 22
What is happening here? What does this show?
What questions does it make you want to ask?
Why did the Germans vote for the Nazis?
1. People were poor and desperate2. People were looking for a strong
leader3. People were looking for a strong
party4. People wanted someone to
blame for their problems5. People were fed up of other
political parties
“Our last hope”
Which posters would have appealed to this group?
Can you predict why this group voted for the Nazis in 1932?
People were poor and desperate
People were looking for a strong leader
People were looking for a strong party
People wanted someone to blame for their problems
People were fed up of other political parties
Why did the Germans vote for a party who actively hated people?
Word Bank:Propaganda election Great Depression Hitler poverty Communist Marxist anti-Semitic Goebbels
Explain which ONE of the following was the most important:1.People were poor and desperate2.People were looking for a strong leader3.People were looking for a strong party4.People wanted someone to blame for their problems5.People were fed up of other political parties
Explain why a second factor was LESS important than the first in leading the Germans to vote for the Nazis.
Add a third paragraph explaining why interpretations of this question might have changed over time, e.g. why immediately post-war someone might see this differently to now 70 years later