1. Who voted Nazi?

2. Historiography
Until 1980’s the predominant view was that the Mittelstand [middle-classes] provided most support for the Nazis.
Bracher and Brozat advocated this view.

3. Historiography
From 1980’s onwards historians have increasingly argued that it was a socially diverse mix that voted for the Nazis.
Childers and Hamilton and Jurgen Falter argue this.
Muhlburger and Fischer show Nazi Party and SA membership as mixed. However see Party as more middle-class dominated and Sa as more working-class dominated.

4. Problems of evidence
Easier to work out social class of members of SA and Nazi party as occupation on membership form.
Election statistics harder to interpret. Most historians merge election statistics with population statistics to work out a rough or general picture.

5. Areas to look at. Religion Social Class and Rural/Urban Women Youth
Resources
Use Dick Geary Article p14-19.
Hite and Hinton p
Conan Fischer article esp p 33.

6. Which Religion was more prone to supporting the Nazis?
Look at Catholic and Protestant levels of support for Nazism. [Geary p14/15]
Why are there different levels of support?
Historiography.
Your conclusion to this question.

7. Social class and Urban/Rural
Working class support for Nazis. [voting and membership Geary p17/18]
Mittelstand support for Nazis [voting and membership Geary p16]
Impact of unemployment on support for Nazis. [Geary p18]
Historiography
Divergence between large urban centres and rural areas.
Types of workers more prone to support Nazis.
Factors limiting workers supporting Nazis.

8. Women Traditional voting behaviour of Women.
Were women more likely to join/vote for Nazis?
Why?
Evidence
Historiography.

9. Youth Were young people more likely to A] Join B] vote for the Nazis
Why?
Evidence.
Historiography

10. Historiography Peukert “panic of the middle strata”
Fischer “Nazi movement as a social coalition, a Volksbewegung [people’s movement]which accommodated the interests of bourgeois and workers alike by offering them a place in a national ethnic community or Volksgemeinschaft.”

11. Historiography
Dick Geary “ The Nazi Party was therefore without doubt a Volkspartei : recruiting its members and its voters across a broad range of social groups, from both sexes and from the older as well as the younger generations”

12. Historiography
Dick Geary“Being a Catholic, unemployed or living in a large town significantly reduced the likelihood of voters to vote for Hitler, as did the existence of strong ideological or political traditions. Conversely being a Protestant in rural Germany greatly increased such a propensity.”