Who voted Nazi?

Learning Objectives  To understand the debate surrounding Hitler’s rise to power.  To reacquaint ourselves with a question 1.

ViewWhat do they argue?What evidence do they use? What historians are associated with it? Left wing view: Crisis of capitalism Anti-German determinists Moral Crisis Structuralists Intentionalists Miscalculation

The discussion between the Fuhrer and Herr von Papen in Cologne has taken place. It was supposed to be kept secret, but, through an indiscretion, has become publicly known and Schleicher is now having it trumpeted up in a big way in the press…One thing the government now in office [power] must know is that its overthrow is seriously on the cards. If this coup succeeds, then we are no longer far removed from power. From the diary of Joseph Goebbels, 5 January 1933 Cartoon in Vorwarts, the SPD newspaper in 1932, claiming that the Nazis were backed by money from big business. The placard says ‘The National Socialists Workers’ Party fights against capitalism’. The November revolution, the revolution of the Jews and the Marxist party-rabble have delivered you into the hands of the international loan capitalism. For years you have sweated so that the State can pay the interest on the loan capital. You are damned for all eternity to be wage slaves, if you don't demand: (1) The Nationalization of the banks and the money economy. (2) The abolition of interest-exploiters and Stock Exchange speculators. (3) The abolition of share capital. Election leaflet published by the National Socialist German Workers Party (October, 1925) Source A Source B Source C QUESTION 1: With reference to the sources and your understanding of the historical context, assess the value of these three sources to an historian studying the rise of the Nazis between 1924 and 1933.