As the 1929 bank fallout progressed....the German government was forced to take actions to make the NY banks happy over the reparations loan that they'd take....to pay off the French, Americans and British (1925 bank loan).
In simple terms....this moment in history collapsed the German government. The coalition government (run by the SPD) had an election mandate going back to May 1928, and was supposed to last until May 1932.
To get over the 'hump'...the President of Germany invented a 'power' out of thin air, and gave the SPD (without its coalition help) to get over the bank problems.
Public criticism? This was at a maximum level. You can blame the loan itself, or the fix that the SPD got into....but across the nation....folks were frustrated at the economic 'fall' going on, and blame was going around.
September 1930....came the next election.
Results? The SPD took a slight loss in seats (getting 143 of the 577).
The Nazis? They didn't just double or triple....they went from the 1928 position of twelve seats....to 107.
Forming a coalition....with the Communist Party sitting in 3rd place (13-percent of the votes)?
If you go back to look at comments....a lot of people felt that a SPD-Communist Party coalition (after the SPD partnered with the Nazis) would occur in the next election. The Communists? They pretty much felt Nazi voters would leave after they saw mostly failures in government.
By spring of 1932....this coalition was deemed awful fragile, and ineffective....so the next federal election was rigged for the summer of 1932 (way ahead of schedule).
What you can generally say is that from 1929 on....politics at any level...was stumbling around and not showing any public satisfaction. The public spiral? 'Send-a-message' seems to be more of a priority than anything else.
The end of WW I, the reparations, and the bank loan deal....connected to all of this misfortune? I'd strongly suggest that.
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