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To what extent was the Great Depression responsible for the collapse of the Weimar Republic?
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Alex
The Nazi Party actually received fewer votes from regions with greater numbers of unemployed people (
p. 408
).
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Pro claim 1
Alex
There is no statistical correlation between rates of unemployment in an area and their voting for the Nazis in 1930 and 1932.
Alex
Con claim 1
Alex
This pattern only emerged because some regions with high unemployment were also heavily
Catholic and relatively less agrarian
than others. Both of these factors were also indicators of Nazi support (p. 409).
Alex
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