Germany: How accurate is it to say that, in the years 1918-45, Germans continued to favour authoritarian governments?

Introduction

• Criteria: Consistent favouring of anti-democratic govt

• Only when times were hard was there a lack of support for democracy

• 1918-24

• 1924-29

• 1929-33

• 1933-45

Paragraph 1

• 1918-24

• 1919 constitution included Article 48

• 400 political murders 1919-23

• Kapp Putsch stopped by 12,000 troops

Paragraph 2

• 1924-29

• Pro-democracy parties win 56% of vote in 1928

• Hindenburg won 48% in 1925

• Nazis only got 2.6% of vote in 1928

Paragraph 3

• 1929-33

• Nazi vote share rose to 18.3% in 1930

• Nazis win 37.3% of votes in July 1932

• 66 emergency decrees in 1932

Paragraph 4

• 1933-45

• November 1933 Nazi list won 92% approval

• 1934 plebiscite on combining Chancellor and President got 89.9% approval

• 50% spent on military by 1944 (militaristic)