Germany: party share of popular vote results in federal elections 1924-1933
anti-Semitic, while the socialist element was gradually erased. With the onset of the Great Depression in 1930, the Party saw its popularity increase and it grew to become the largest political party in July 1932, before Hitler assumed power in January of the following year.
The Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party (the Nazi Party) was founded in Germany in 1920 as an extreme-right alternative to communism for working-class voters. Similarly to the Communist Party, early Nazi ideologies were largely opposed to capitalism, business elites, and the centrist political establishment, however their approach was much more nationalistic and militaristic. Throughout the 1920s, as Adolf Hitler consolidated his power and became party leader in 1925, party rhetoric shifted focus to become increasingly anti-communist and