who voted for the nazis

• Who voted for the Nazis

  • People-rich upper class and businessmen
  • Farmers
  • Women
  • Middle-class people (small business owners, bank workers, doctors, managers)
  • Young people
• Why the Nazis were popular with farmers

  • Promised higher prices for crops, better quality of life, and higher status in German society
  • Hated communists who would seize land
• Why the Nazis were popular with women

  • Promised to restore family life, good morals and self-discipline
  • Promised to sort out 'muck and filth' in media
• Why the Nazis were popular with the middle class

  • Wages had been cut by the government
  • Large groups of unemployed youths
  • Feared law and order breaking down or communist takeover
  • Wanted a strong Weimar government but they just argued
  • Nazis promised to deal with problems decisively, Stormtroopers would take on communists
  • Nazis seemed to show order and discipline in a time of chaos
• Why the Nazis were popular with young people

  • Promised to tear up the Treaty of Versailles
  • Promised to make Germany strong again
  • Promised jobs in the armed forces, building new homes, motorways and hospitals
  • Won over by the sheer force of Hitler's beliefs
• The Nazis are popular in the countryside as farms have been hit hard by the Depression, people are not buying as much food and farmers have had to lower prices
• The Weimar government didn't help farmers either
• Hitler is an old soldier who knows the value of a powerful army, navy and air force
• Upper classes and rich factory owners

  • Might not support everything the Nazis want, but they do support them on some key issues
  • Have been promised strong leadership and a more powerful nation like the good old days when Germany was feared and respected throughout Europe
  • Have been promised they can run factories how they want
  • Might make even more money from the Nazis' plans to use their factories to build weapons, battleships and fighter planes
• The Nazis will fight communists


  Not let them take their businesses
• Not everyone voted for the Nazis though
• Former German soldier: 'He began to speak and I immediately disliked him. I didn't know then what he would later become. I found him rather comical with his funny little moustache. He had a scratchy voice and a rather strange appearance, and he shouted so much. He was shouting in this small room, and what he was saying was rather emphatic. I thought he wasn't quite normal. I found him spooky.'