1a. Source 37: Source 37 could be used to support Goebbels' and Craig's interpretations. Source 37 shows an increase and then a little decrease in popularity, which Goebbels could use to say that the people really want Hitler to be their leader, that it's his destiny shown by all his popularity. Also, it could be used to support Craig's interpretation that the people shared negative opinions about the Weimer Government, reparations, and Communist Party violence shown also by the popularity or votes.
1b. Source 38: Source 38 could be used to support Craig's interpretations because in the quote it talks about "discipline in a time of chaos" and "universal hopelessness," which the German people felt and saw this as a bad thing happening in Germany. This was a shared opinion with the Nazi Party, therefore the German people voted for NSDAP because of shared negative opinions, also known as "negative cohesion" as Craig puts it.
1c. Source 39: I believe Source 39 could support Craig's interpretation that Hitler became in power because of negative cohesion. This is true because the poster says "Against Versailles," which was a common opinion with the NSDAP and the German people, but it was a negative opinion not a positive one coming from the party.
1d. Source 40: I believe Source 40 could definitely be used as evidence for Goebbel's interpretation that Hitler was destined to be Germany's leader. This is true because Source 40 is a photograph of a Nazi Party rally with millions of people, so it makes it look like all those people are there to praise and listen to Hitler and want him to be their leader.
1e. Source 41: I believe that Source 41 fits more as evidence for Craig's interpretation because it depicts negative aspects of the Communist Party, and doesn't focus on the positives that the NSDAP was going to offer. For example, it shows the communists shooting a brown coat, or Nazi, right on the street; which shows their violence and a common opinion of the NSDAP and the Germans.
1f. Source 43: I think that Source 43 supports Craig's interpretation of negative cohesion because the poster talks about the negative aspects of different parties, which the German people don't really want to happen. For example, the poster talks about the other parties "planning to use terror, corruption, lies and other strategies as the basis for their government," which the Germans didn't want because they were already in a similar situation and wanted to get out of it.
2.
Supporting Goebbels' interpretation:
a. Source 37
b. Source 40
c. Source 42
d. Hitler being a great orator
e. Hitler's overall look (a man of the people, a dynamic man of the moment, the leader of a modern party with modern ideas)
Supporting Craig's interpretation (negative cohesion):
a. Source 35
b. Source 36
c. Source 37
d. Source 38
e. Source 39
f. Source 41
g. Source 43
h. Source 44
i. Twenty-Five Points
j. Nazi Propaganda
k. Communist Threat
l. Weimer Culture vs. old, traditional German values
Scale of 1-5 with 5 being you agree fully.
3a. Score: 4 Very few people fully supported the Nazis.
Explain your score: I am giving this statement a four because I think there was a small part of Germany that supported the Nazis, but I strongly believe that a lot of Germans supported the Nazis because of Craig's negative cohesion theory. I think that there were a lot of bad events happening and opinions that the Germans and NSDAP had in common. Maybe the people didn't agree with any other party so all they really had was the Nazi Party. They agreed on what the Nazi Party thought was bad so they thought how bad could the NSDAP be. They most likely didnt' see the Center Party or Socialist Democratic Party as being successful since they were the founders of the Weimer Constitution that basically brought Germany into this chaos, and the people probably saw the Communist Party as a threat from what they saw over in USSR, like collectivization and nationalizing industries.
3b. Score: 5 The key factor was the economic depression. Without it, the Nazis would have remained a minority fringe party.
Explain your score: I strongly agree with this statement because in 1924 to 1928, before the Great Depression, Germany started to improve and people were content with life at that point, but then the Great Depression caused large unemployment rates and made chaos, which the people did not want at all. On top of that no other party, in the Germans' eyes, coud fix the problems especially the SPD and Center Party since they were the ones with majority at that moment and couldn't fix anything. Also, the other parties, before the Depression, had more votes than NSDAP, besides the Communist Party. The NSDAP was still obscure before the Great Depression, between 1918 and 1929, because the people didn't buy or believe in their extreme ideas.
3c. Score: 3.5 The politicians of the Weimar Republic were mainly responsible for the rise of the Nazis.
Explain your score: I partially agree with this statement because the Weimer Republic did struggle to fix the problems and they let Hitler become chancellor of Germany because they thought they could control him by surrounding Hitler with people from the Center Party and SPD; which didn't end up working. On the other hand, there could have been any other party or the Weimer Republic could have become more organized to try to solve these problems and compete against the Nazi Party, which could've stopped the rise of the Nazis. The other political parties could have challenged the Nazis and made their plans better than the Nazis. Even though there were no political parties to the right or on the same side as the NSDAP there could have been one to challenge the Nazis. The negative cohesion Germans who voted for the Nazis because they shared the same dislikes about Germany and the Weimer Republic could have made their own political party with the same dislikes, but different policies that they did not agree with in the NSDAP.
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