keeping Germanysindustry moving. As a consequence, the economy came to a stop andmillions of people lost their jobs. The response of the government was, ofcourse, to try to get Germany out of the depression. But how? One waywould be to print money and increase government expenditure. But themembers of the government were more afraid of a period of inflation thanone of unemployment. So instead they perform blunder upon blunder andraise taxes, cut wages and reduce unemployment benefits. This causedpeople to turn to other parties for answers. As usual, the extremist groupswere the ones with the answers. In the election straight after the GreatDepression, the Nazis experienced a rise from 12 seats in 1928 to 107seats in 1930. As did the Communists from 54 to 77 seats. Although theeconomic depression was felt globally, Germany was one of the countriesto be hit the hardest.There were many techniques which the Nazis used to gather supportmany of which had been use previously by themselves and also by otherparties. The big question would, of course, be How did the Nazis do it?In the 1930s the Nazi Party utilised all possible techniques to gathersupport from all around Germany. The history of many Nazi Partymembers lead back to WWI and so with them came the same obedience,organisation and teamwork which was present in the army. Propagandawas well organised and popular ideas and slogans were repeated over andover. Promises to voters were made to gain their votes and unlike otherparties the Nazis were extremely flexible and watched the response of thepeople and adapted quickly to satisfy them. Hitlers extraordinary publicspeaking skills incorporated with the use of technology enabled him to flyto four or five mass rallies per day compared to Hindenburgs one electionspeech. All these techniques allowed Hitler and the Nazis to become thelargest party in the Reichstag by 1933 advancing to 230 seats or 43.9%.And they were not going to stop at that. Va...
