Weimar+Reichstag+Elections

There were many political parties in Germany in 1932, but four battled for control of the Reichstag (G's Congress) in 1932. They were the:


 * Center Party:** Catholic, wanted strong police, low taxes for most people, a military to protect Germany, and putting German families first.


 * Social Democratic Party (SPD)**: Negotiate lower reparation payments, low military spending,


 * National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)**: Destroy the Weimar system, tear up the Treaty of Versailles, end unemployment by building a huge military, take back German land, restore German pride, not our fault we lost WWI, we were sold out by traitors!


 * The Communist Party of Germany (KPD):** Workers of Germany, wanted to rise up share all the wealth and power. With help from the Soviet Union they wanted to end military spending, lower taxes on workers and raise them on the wealthy, close church run schools and end govt. support of religious institutions.

In your group you will work together to create a speech and a propaganda poster outlining what your party wants. Avoid talking about other political parties. Just stick to the facts, but know that you are going to deliver this speech to the class. Your poster needs to follow the same rules, make sure that you are clear about what your party stands for and wants.

In the second part of the activity on Tuesday, you will be given a German person's identity and you will listen to all of the speeches in order to decide who you will support and why.

The final part is voting! Everyone gets a ballot and will be voting. Then there is a reflective writing piece and we will be done with the Reichstag election of 1932.