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German unemployment reached roughly six million in early 1932, and the NSDAP vote peaked that July before falling in November. What does that combination suggest about the relationship between depression and Nazi support?
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- The economic crisis is necessary to the story and is not sufficient on its own.
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C. Crisis raised the party's ceiling, but power was achieved through elite political deals.
Why
The depression is what took a fringe party from 2.6 per cent to over a third of the vote, so it is clearly central. But a third of the vote is not a majority, the share fell in November while unemployment stayed catastrophic, and power came through an appointment. Structural crisis set the conditions; identifiable people made the decision.
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