why did people support Nazi Party

• | appeal of hitler

  • in hitler, they saw a strong leader who promised to..
  • restore law & order
  • force other countries to scrap Treaty of Versailles & treat Germany fairly
• • hitler was popular & features prominently in posters & took advantage of new approaches for electoral campaigns
  • nazis had support from wealthy businessmen
  • provided funding for costs of campaigns like posters
• | appeal of SA

  • unformed SA made them seem organised & reliable & were strong enough to stand up to foreign protests
  • SA used to disrupt opposition parties violently & disrupted rallies
  • 1930: 400,000 stormtroopers
• | working class support

  • NSDAP tried to seem like the party for working classes
  • name was National Socialist German Workers Party
  • Had policies to appeal to workers like traditional German values to create a stronger Germany
  • nazis promised people ‘work & bread‘ on their posters
  • many working class, however, preferred communism
• | middle class support

  • Great Depression hurt middle class & so they saw hitler as a strong leader who’d help the country recover
  • afraid of growing communist party
  • believed there had been a moral decline under weimar republic with more drinking & wanted a return to traditional values
• | appeal to big businesses

  • wealthy industrialists supported national party
  • hitler persuaded wealthy businessmen that nazi would protect them form communism
• | farmers

  • nazis policy of confiscating private land in 25 points was changed to only if they were jews
  • hitler reassured farmers & they hoped hitler would protect them from communism which would have taken their lands
• | appeal to young people

  • Nazi party was exciting & its rallies were colourful
  • hitlers speeches were stirring & promised more than traditional parties
• | appeal to women

  • at first, they didn’t support
  • nazi propaganda made special appeals to woman, claiming that voting for NSDAP was better for country & their families