HIST 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Proletariat, Gang Of Youths, Preventive War
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The centre party (catholic oriented party) had mostly solid support; it had a lot of support in bavaria particularly, but it had moderate strength everywhere. The communist party also grew, and had some gains towards 1932; the social democrats were losing votes moderately throughout the whole period. People"s party not very strong and extremely weakening. German national people"s party was declining for the most part declining parallel with the rise of the nazis very considerably declining in july 1932 and remaining there until november 1932. Hitler sent a telegram opposing the sentence and although many said that this disqualified the nazis, they still gained votes: when hitler came to power they were amnestied. German national people"s party and the centre party he could convince the president that there would be stability and chance for recovery (papen persuaded the president of this) hitler agreed to the coalition with the centre.
