Explaining DNVP

In this period of German transition from the Kaiser's Prussia....to the 1919 Weimar Republic era...is the rarely explained German National People's Party (the DNVP).

Most fail to recognize that it was a umbrella-like political party to attract a lot of different people.  It involved populist efforts, monarchy enthusiasts (the type that embrace royalty in various ways and hype up having a king on the throne but then delay events like this because it's pretender-act),  agarianism (favoring rural folks or farmers ahead of urban folks or factor workers), and the antisemitic supporters (hating Jews and anything connected to Jewish businesses).

If you look at the various groups....normally, they would have been their own party....but some folks were smart enough and politically diverse in their talk....that they got around 3-million German folks (roughly 10-percent of the voting population) to vote along with their party.

There's probably a 300-page book of information to tell this story from 1919 to 1930.  The DNVP came up in at least six elections....getting typically 10-to-18 percent of the vote in every election.  Never winning, but typically in second or third pace.

Around 1930....something happened with the DNVP.  A sub-group of the organization....the Nationalists Socialists...got into a walk-out.  The walk-out affected the election results of September 1930 election....getting the DNVP 7-percent of the vote.  At that point, they were finished.  The umbrella-like function that had worked for eleven years....could not be recreated.

The right-wing type angle of the DNVP?  It comes up mostly because of the agarianism platforms, the monarchy chatter, and the bits and pieces required to preserve a fake image.

If you gaze over at Hitler's Nationalists Socialist platform for 1932....it's pure socialism promises.

A number of historians will try to get the fake slant up that the Nazis were still on the DNVP platform angle by 1932 and beyond....but it was a totally different political sales-job going on.  The DNVP umbrella situation never went beyond a certain point with the general public.  The bulk of the political wins in that eleven-year period were with the SPD.....promising various socialism-related gimmicks and gifts.  Hitler and his folks eventually figured out that the right-wing promises were not enough.

The March 1933 election in Germany?  Forty-nine percent of the vote went Nazi.  The SPD?  Eighteen percent.  Basically two out of three voters wanted a socialist platform. Twelve percent of the nation voted Communist....which means that roughly three out of four voters wanted something that a socialist or communist government could deliver.  It says a lot about the 'gift' desires of the general public and where things were going in 1933.

That was the last real election in Germany until after the war (not counting the two fake elections that came in 1936 and 1938).