HIST 436 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mein Kampf, Quarantine Speech, Indep
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Reichstag: ~500/600 members, quite large. the smallest parties in germany played hardly any role. The shifts (mostly addressed) were the growth of the nazi party from 2/3 to 18% of the popular, and then. Voter turnout was always high in the weimar republic, 70%, sometimes 80: success of nazis in protestant + catholic rural areas, as opposed to metropolitan voting areas. Wilson had called national self-determination) (the union w/ austria wasn"t extreme - the austrian parliament had decided upon it in 1919/20 and the allies had prohibited it. Oil and rubber: chief of general staff general beck in his memoranda warned hitler that the us would enter the war. Everyone knew that the americans had won ww1 for the allies. (fr and br were loosing - Hitler knew this well, he was on the front until the end of the war). Br were in diff then the us would come into the war.