The People Who Supported the Nazis

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The people who supported the Nazis and when are various groups between 1919 - 1924. These groups were people of nobility, business and Lutheran in 1927. The Nazi's supported were during the period of turmoil from 1919 - 1924 due to the unstable government and Constitution. The political system as a whole was suffering from inflation starting prior to the Great Depression in 1919 until September 1923. What has caused the financial system to have such turmoil was the abuse from the cabinet members and the enormous confusion over the reparation payments from World War I. There were also uprisings in the North, South and at Ruhr. An attempt for a Kapp Putch by the Freikorps through the SPD. As a result of the Kapp Putch the National Socialist German Workers Party was formed comprised of the middle class. "Nazism was not a monolithic movement, but rather a (mainly German) combination of various ideologies and groups, sparked by anger at the Treaty of Versailles and what was considered to have been a Jewish/Communist conspiracy (known in the vernacular as the Dolchstoßlegende or “Stab-in-the-Back Legend”) to humiliate Germany at the end of the First World War." (Nazism, 2008-2009)

In the initial Period from 1919-1929 there was this period of turmoil there were several things that happened from 1923 - 1924, one of which was having civil wars to drive out the communist government. The SPD and the KPD were closely aligned and the SPD pulled out and did not return until 1928. In the spring of 1924 the Dawes Plan was sent to the German Government. The German government did not ratify the Dawes Plan until late September /early October of 1924. In May 4, 1924 and December 7, 1924 elections were held and the NSDAP was formed, g...

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...d they facilitated final result. The Army failed responsibility of the government, 1933 Tasset Support convinced Hindenburg to have Hitler as Chancellor. The German Bureaucracy never supported the system. Stresemann created National Myths about different areas of the government, such as showing that the Prussian king was communist through his fake documents. The Treaty of Versailles Peace terms did not match the outcome of the war because the Allies handled the peace settlement badly and Germany never disarmed. Hitler was a master demagogue received support from all segments of the population, but mainly middle class protestant. Hitler had the doors to power open for him without their assistance they could have not come into power.

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Nazism. (2008-2009). Retrieved March 25, 2011, from Wikipedia: http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/n/Nazism.htm

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