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NSWModern HistoryCore Study: Power and Authority in the Modern World 1919-1946
Quick questions on Hitler's rise to power 1919-1933: HSC Modern History Core Study
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What are long-term Weimar weaknesses?Show answer
The Weimar constitution (August 1919) used proportional representation, producing fragmented parliaments (around 30 parties contested 1928 elections). Article 48 gave the President emergency powers to rule by decree. The Treaty of Versailles (June 1919) supplied the founding grievance, exploited as the Dolchstosslegende (stab in the back) by the nationalist right. Hyperinflation (1923) wiped out middle-class savings.
What is the Nazi voter base?Show answer
The Nazi vote was disproportionately Protestant, rural, small-town, and middle-class (Mittelstand). The KPD held urban industrial workers; the Catholic Centre Party held the Catholic vote. The Nazis combined a youth movement (the Hitler Youth, founded 1926), a paramilitary (SA, 400,000 by 1932), and a women's organisation.
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