STRUCTURALIST
(conditions that produced authoritarian and single-party states)
INTENTIONALIST
(Hitler's methods that led to his SPS being established)
Political Conditions (Foreign)

Political Conditions (Domestic - Germany)

People (Domestic - Germany)

Economic Conditions
"Unemployment"
2 million in 1929; 4.5 million in 1931; nearly 6 million in 1932
Timeline Events


...more to come

Hitler becomes chancellor - January 30, 1933
Reichstag elections - March 5, 1933

THE EMERGENCE OF AN ALTERNATIVE
Nazis kept up the pressure with, "a display of energy, demand for discipline, sacrifice, action and not talk." --- Alan Bullock

NSDAP Election Results
September 1930 - 107 seats (huge increase on its previous 12)
July 1932 - 230 seats, 37.3% of votes (largest party)
November 1932 - 196 seats





IDEOLOGIES

HITLER'S SUPPORTERS
  • Conservative elites
  • Ex-army officers
  • Senior civil servants
  • Ex-soldiers and members of Friekorps
  • Middle class and farmers of Northern Germany who did not benefit from Weimar's "golden years"