Hitler Promised to Make Germany Great Again
Germans Elect Nazis
Adolf Hitler and the Nazis waged a modern whirlwind entrada in 1930 unlike anything ever seen in Germany. Hitler traveled the country delivering dozens of major speeches, attending meetings, shaking hands, signing autographs, posing for pictures, and even kissing babies.
Joseph Goebbels brilliantly organized thousands of meetings, torchlight parades, plastered posters everywhere and printed millions of special edition Nazi newspapers.
Germany was in the grip of the Bully Depression with a population suffering from poverty, misery, and uncertainty, amongst increasing political instability.
For Hitler, the master speech maker, the long awaited opportunity to let loose his talents on the German people had arrived. He would find in this downtrodden people, an audition very willing to mind. In his speeches, Hitler offered the Germans what they needed most, encouragement. He gave them heaps of vague promises while avoiding the details. He used uncomplicated catchphrases, repeated over and over.
A typical entrada scene with Nazi posters on brandish next to the Center Party, Communists, Socialists and others. Below: Repeated propaganda marches became a cheap and effective form of publicity - sometimes leading to violence between rival political groups. Hörst Wessel, pictured at the front end, was killed during such a brawl in 1930 and raised to the status of a martyr by Nazis via the "Hörst Wessel" imprint anthem.
His campaign appearances were carefully staged events. Audiences were always kept waiting, deliberately letting the tension increment, merely to be broken by solemn processions of Brownshirts with gold banners, blaring military machine music, and finally the appearance of Hitler among shouts of "Heil!" The effect in a closed in hall with theatrical style lighting and decorations of swastikas was overwhelming and very catching.
Hitler began each speech in low, hesitating tones, gradually raising the pitch and volume of his voice then exploding in a climax of frenzied indignation. He combined this with carefully apposite hand gestures for maximum effect. He skillfully played on the emotions of the audience bringing the level of excitement higher and college until the people wound up a broad-eyed, screaming, frenzied mass that surrendered to his will and looked upon him with pseudo-religious adoration.
Hitler offered something to everyone: piece of work to the unemployed; prosperity to failed business organization people; profits to industry; expansion to the Army; social harmony and an end of class distinctions to idealistic young students; and restoration of High german glory to those in despair. He promised to bring social club amid chaos; a feeling of unity to all and the chance to belong. He would make Germany strong again; terminate payment of war reparations to the Allies; tear up the treaty of Versailles; stamp out abuse; keep down Marxism; and deal harshly with the Jews.
He appealed to all classes of Germans. The proper name of the Nazi Party itself was deliberately all inclusive – the National Socialist High german Workers' Party.
All of the Nazis, from Hitler, downwardly to the leader of the smallest city block, worked tirelessly, relentlessly, to pound their message into the minds of the Germans.
On ballot solar day September 14, 1930, the Nazis received half dozen,371,000 votes – over eighteen pct of the total – and were thus entitled to 107 seats in the High german Reichstag. It was a stunning victory for Hitler. Overnight, the Nazi Party went from the smallest to the 2d largest party in Deutschland.
It propelled Hitler to solid national and international prestige and aroused the curiosity of the world press. He was besieged with interview requests. Foreign journalists wanted to know – what did he hateful – tear up the Treaty of Versailles and end state of war reparations? – and that Federal republic of germany wasn't responsible for the Start World War?
Gone was the Charlie Chaplin image of Hitler as the laughable fanatic backside the Beer Hall Putsch. The beer hall revolutionary had been replaced by the skilled manipulator of the masses.
On October 13, 1930, dressed in their brown shirts, the elected Nazi deputies marched in unison into the Reichstag and took their seats. When the roll-telephone call was taken, each one shouted, "Present! Heil Hitler!"
They had no intention of cooperating with the democratic government, knowing it was to their advantage to let things become worse in Germany, thus increasing the appeal of Hitler to an ever more miserable people.
Nazi tempest troopers dressed in civilian clothes celebrated their balloter victory by smashing the windows of Jewish shops, restaurants and section stores, an indication of things to come.
Now, for the floundering High german commonwealth, the clock was ticking and time was on Hitler's side.
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