Do you love thrilling stories about Nazis? The NSDAP combined its economic scare propaganda with a very heavy emphasis upon its championship of traditional German middle-class political and social prejudices. Although in the past Hitler himself had often called for a strictly centralized state, he now publicly recognized the viability of the federal system and the sovereignty Eigenstaatlichkeit of the states.
From here it was only a step to participation in legislative coalitions. The party that had long debated whether or not to field candidates began in to deal in backroom compromises in Saxony just like any other interest group.
Finally, the party continued its less belligerent attitude toward the nationalist paramilitary and patriotic organizations as part of its effort to make the sponsorship of middle-class ideals credible. At the time of the Munich conference, Alfred Rosenberg published an article in the VB noting that diplomatically Germany had never been more isolated and hence more powerless than at this time, and the paper thereafter continued masochistically to wallow in every real or imagined setback suffered by the Weimar government in international affairs.
In a sense, of course, this was nothing new, but the political conclusions which the party drew from this state of affairs were novel. The Reichsleitung utilized its emphasis on national degradation under the new rural-nationalist plan to stage a limited comeback to the far-right fold in German politics.
Bored yet? Dunked in the alphabet soup? Well, maybe the history of Weimar politics is not for you. The Nazis had achieved breadth though not depth in developing their electoral constituency. Despite extensive organizational efforts and a definite Socialist orientation in their propaganda between and , the National Socialists failed to crack the Communist and Social Democratic monopoly on the workers.
