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1. Racial Purity Totalitarianism Starter Lebensraum German Values Nationalism Socialism Write your own definition for each of these key words

3. The Nazis and the elections Learning Objective To analyse the electoral success of the Nazi party following the rebirth!

4. Input Number of seats won in the Reichstag Draw a line diagram to chart the success of the different political parties during the 1920’s early 30’s. You will need at least 6 colours. Don’t forget a clear key.

5. Demonstration Number of seats won in the Reichstag Key 175 KPD 150 SDP 125 100 Seats 75 50 25 Sept 1930 June 1920 June 1924 Dec 1924 May 1928 Date of election

6. Input Draw a bar chart to illustrate the number of votes that the Nazi party received.

7. Between 1924 and 1928, the Nazi party actually looses support and gains few seats in the Reichstag. • The main reasons why the Nazi party gained more supporters and seats in the Riechstag was not because of the changes made to the party by Hitler but a combination of the Wall Street crash and the death of Stesemann. • The Nazi party recieves only 810, 000 votes in 1928, this increases to over 6 million in 1930 following the Wall Street Crash and The Great Depression. • Evidence suggests that the Nazis were starting to lose support in 1932 (although they were still the largest party). • In 1933 Hitler became Chancellor of Germany,

8. Demonstration Number of votes won by the Nazi Party 14 12 10 Number of votes in millions 8 6 4 2 July 1932 May 1924 Dec 1942 May 1928 Sept 1930

9. Input Draw a bar chart to illustrate the number of people unemployed in Germany up until 1933.

10. Draw a bar chart to illustrate the percentage of votes that the Nazi party received between 1924-33

11. 1) Using graph 1 rank each party according to popularity across the period of 1920-33. The first one election has been done for you. 2) How many election are there between the years of 1920-1933? 3) What we can we learn from this about the stability of German politics? 4) Which political party dominates German politics throughout the 1920’s? 5) What happened to the Nazi Party and Communist Party’s support from 1928? 6) What might explain such a change? 7) What do the statistics about unemployment tell you? 8) Using the graphs, explain how effective the Nazi Party had been following their re-launch in 1924 up until 1930? 9) What of the following was the most important factor that explains why the Nazi Party support increased? (Rebirth of the Party Stresemann's death Wall Street Crash Use of propaganda economic problems) Explain your answer.

12. Seats won

13. Number of seats won in the Reichstag Number of votes won by the Nazi Party. % of all votes won People unemployment in Germany