DEPTH STUDY GERMANY: NAZI'S LITTLE SUCCESS AND FAILURE BEFORE 1930

1. DEPTH STUDY
NAZI GERMANY
HITLER DOMINATING
GERMANY BY 1934
NAZI’s LITTLE SUCCESS
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2. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY

3. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
LITTLE IMPACT IN ELECTIONS
• Nazi Party made real progress in terms of organisation,
membership and finances.
• The impact in election was minimal.
• The party was too small to contest the 1919 or 1920
elections.
• Nazis had to wait until May 1924 before they could test
their national popularity.
• In the first elections showing Nazis achieved 6.5%.
• The initial success was attributed to Hitler’s publicity
during his trial in March 1924.

4. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
FIRST DISSAPOINTMENTS
• It was impossible to build on the support in the
election of December 1924.
• For the next 1928 elections, the Nazis continued the
decline, dropping to a small 2.6%.
• The reason for this lack of success can be found in the
improvement that was taking place at the same time in
the Weimar Republic – economic, political and
international.

5. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
OTHER PARTIES
• Stresemann was efficient in keeping Germany outside
the economic turbulences of 1923.
• Germany was well along the road to recovery.
• The moderate parties were the main winners.
• Times were improving, and the German electorate
could see little reason to switch their support to an
untested, extreme right-wing party whose leader had
recently been convicted of high treason.