Answer:
Hitler joined the Nazi Party in 1919 and was influential in defining its beliefs. He also led the Munich Putsch in 1923. However, from 1924 to 1929 the unpopular party gained little electoral success. Some main reasons were:
- Wealthy businessmen: were frightened communists would take their wealth away and did not want to see any more increase in support for them. To combat this, they began to give money to Hitler and the Nazis, hoping they would gain more seats – not the communists.
- The middle-class: were generally quite traditional and were not convinced by the Weimar democracy. Hitler promised them a strong government and won their votes.
- Nationalists: they blamed the legacy of the Treaty of Versailles and reparations for causing the depression and so lent their support to the Nazis who had promised to make Germany strong again.
- Rural areas: The Nazis appealed to people in the countryside - especially middle class shopkeepers and craftsmen, farmers and agricultural laborer's.
Hitler was a great speaker with an extraordinary power to win people over. Goebbels' propaganda campaign was very effective. He used aero planes to bring Hitler to speak across the country, radios to broadcast important speeches and rallies to make supporters excited. And brought huge support for the Nazis by targeting specific groups of society with different slogans and policies to win their support.