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HITLER: SUPPORTTimmy Metzger, Paul Go, Esther Park
Was Hitler supported by the vast majority of Germans?
YES
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VOTES
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May 20, 1928
NSDAP: 2.6%KPD: 10.7%SPD: 30.2%
September 14, 1938
NSDAP: 20.8%KPD: 1.5%SPD: 27.8%
July 31, 1932
NSDAP: 37.1%KPD: 14.5%SPD: 21.5%
November 6, 1932
NSDAP: 36.7%KPD: 18.7%SPD: 11.5%
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Reasons?
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1. Economic Situation
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1,862,000 (1928)
6,042,000 (1932)
From John Simkin’s The Rise of Hitler:
“for five years I remained unemployed...I was not wanted by Germany...then I was introduced to
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“You won’t understand and I cannot explain either because I don’t know what happened, but life for me took on a tremendous new significance...I have committed myself, body, soul and spirit, to this movement”
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2. Propaganda
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Ms. Gifford’s YouTube video “The Nazis: A Warning From History” (1997)
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“We do not want to lie, we do not want to cheat... therefore, I have refused to ever appear in front of this people and
make cheap promises.” -
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LOL COMMUNISM
GTFO
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Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland
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3. TERROR
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Jacques Delarue, The Gestapo
SUPPORTING
GROUPS
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WORKERS
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31.5%
46.3%
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INDUSTRIALISTS
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Anthony C. Sutton, Wall Street and The Rise of Hitler (1979,1999)
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EX-SOLDIERS
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Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland
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PROTESTANTS
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Dick Geary’s Hitler and Nazism (1993)
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PAUL
YOUTH
PAUL
Was Hitler supported by the vast majority of
Germans?
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WORKERS
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LEFT
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Catherine Epstein’s The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and their Century (2003)
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INDUSTRIALISTS
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CATHOLICS
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Dick Geary’s Hitler and Nazism (1993)
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DIFFERENT
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William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960)
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THE LEFT
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Elections of 1931
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PAUL
YOUTH
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ARMY
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PAUL
CONCLUSION