A broad spectrum of social groups voted for the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) in 1932. Catholic, unemployed, and urban people were less apt to vote for the NSDAP than the Protestant, rural population. Many of the geriatric, the young, and the newly...

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party suffered a humiliating loss at the hands of the Conservative Popular Party (PP) during the European parliamentary elections held in Jun. 1994. The loss was the first in 12 years for the party, which garnered only 30.6% of the...

The rise in power of the Nazis from 1928 to 1934

Discusses the emergance of the Nazi party and their seizure of power in the late 1930's.

Analyzes historian Henry Turner's argument that the representatives of big business did not support Hitler financially on his rise to power because of their fear of a Nazi socialist government.