The party had started numbering from five hundred to make the party seem larger. ... Communist and extreme-left parties also began to pick up votes. ... Clashes between the communists and Social Democrats with the Nazis became more commonplace. ... He was anti-communist but not entirely anti-capitalist because if he had gone "anti-business- he would not have had the essential support of big business. ... In the 1932 elections, the majority of people had voted for either the communists or the Nazis. ...

• Word Count: 1809
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• Grade Level: High School

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party offered a new direction for Germany. ... Communist parties were pushing their labour movement on to the people that inevitably made a large portion of the middle classes shift further to the right. ... The DAP held many anti-socialist views as well as anti communist views. In February 1920 he renamed the party to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). ... This led to the big year in the elections for the Nazi Party. ...

• Word Count: 1601
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He and his political party, the Nazis, drew popular support. ... In Russia, the Communist Party swept into power. ... Hitler, once again stirring German fears, blamed the Communist Party. ... With the exception of the Nazi Party, all political parties were banned. ... Violence became the weapon of choice of the Nazi party. ...

• Word Count: 1750
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To get the act passed, Hitler used the SA to intimidate members of parliament when they went to vote, he discounted Communists and Communist votes, he counted absentees as a vote in favour and made promises to the Catholic party which he did not intend to carry through. Using the act, Hitler banned the Communist party, before banning the formation of all other parties, banned trade unions and outlawed strikes, founded concentration camps and abolished the state government. 3. ... Following the Reichstag Fire, which was blamed on the Communists, Hitler discounted the Communist party from the v...

• Word Count: 1453
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Stresemann then acted quickly to crush a Communist rising in Saxony, and refused to get agitated by the activities of the right in Bavaria. ... The USA loaned money to Germany to pay some of the reparations back, this was seen as the Republic growing because the reparations were decreasing and also it showed that they were being accepted into the world economy, although America did have its own reasons for lending Germany money (USA didn't want Germany to be overthrown by Communists). ... In the period 1924-1929, the Nazi Party appeared to have stagnated, and this was true because: Th...

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On July 14th, 1933 all political parties other than the Nazi party, were banned on the orders of Hitler. ... It also allowed the Nazis to say that the country was in danger from the communists during the election campaign. ... After Hitler had arrested all the communist deputies and the other parties had been intimidated by the SA in order to get the Enabling Act passed, which is all Hitler needed to do. Now it was the Centre Party that concerned Hitler the most. ... After Hitler caused the Reichstag Fire and blamed it on the communists, negotiated with the Centre Party, had Social Democrats h...

• Word Count: 1545
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Due to the number of parties in the Reichstag these decisions proved to be hard to make. ... Many Germans liked the Nazis' anti-Communist views. ... The Depression led to millions supporting parties that worked to end the Weimar republic. Many businessmen then looked to Hitler to defend them from the communists. ... Goebbels' intelligent propaganda then built on the anti-Communist and anti-Semitic views that already existed in Germany. ...

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This upset many of the communists and socialists and in January 1919, many were rounded up and murdered in Berlin and Munich by German soldiers. ... Hitler gained even more support as membership increased to hundreds and eventually thousands of communist people. ... By the end of 1920, the party had grown to about three thousand members and Hitler was voted the leader of the Nazi Party. ... His Nazi party was by now unorganized and hurting for some leadership, so Hitler hurriedly tried to put the party back together. He divided the party into 2 parts. ...

• Word Count: 2385
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The Government on its own was failing without any external pressure from Hitler and the Nazi Party, purely based on the harsh and unsympathetic terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which were released in June 1919. ... Conveniently providing this at the time was Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. ... Hitler, blaming it as a 'communist plot' saw for a Law for the Protection of the People and State to be necessary. Hindenburg passed this law, now banning any communist and socialist activity, with over four thousand thrown in prison and the Nazi Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung – SA)...

• Word Count: 1292
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Adolf was an Austrian-born German politician who led the Nazi Party. ... The Nazis used the fire and the decree to attack their political opponents, especially Hitler's least favorite party, the communists. ... After he signed the Enabling Act of 1933, the National Socialist German Workers' Party rounded up communists, leftist individuals, and labour leaders. ... That is because Germans had hope in the Nazi Party. ... The NSDAP abolished the Social Democrats, who numbered at about eight million voters and the Communists, who numbered at almost six million. ...

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In 1920, the party was renamed "National Socialist German Workers Party", or Nazis for short. ... By 1921, Hitler was declared leader of the party and increased the number of members in the party from the original 12 to 128. ... This showed in the 1930 elections, where the Nazi Party won six and a half million votes, which gave them a staggering 100 seats in the Reichstag (Germany's parliament), which meant a small, unknown party from Austria had now become the second largest political party in Germany. ... This was performed, and then Hitler blamed this act on the Communists, saying that...

• Word Count: 1914
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Here as a civilian informer for the army in 1919 Hitler attended the beer hall meetings of an insignificant group called the German Workers Party. ... Fanatical Racist, Alfred Rosenberg became the party's editor, and muddled philosopher of Nazism. ... During imprisonment he feared rivals in his own party so he promoted splits. ... The parties of the moderate right had already been destroyed as an electoral force in the summer of 1932. The Communists were arrested or forced into hiding. ...

• Word Count: 1388
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When he went to check on the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German Worker's Party), he found a group of six men with anti-Semitic ideas just like his - that the Jews were responsible for Germany's loss, that the Jews were the root of evil in Germany, and that Germany could be great again, if not for the Jews. ... With Hitler's speaking skills and powerful propaganda, the Nazi party went from seven members to six hundred in a span of only six weeks.# Their goal was to convince everyone that Germany's problems were all a result of the Jewish people, and that the Jews must die for...

• Word Count: 2068
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School