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FOURTH YEAR GCSE |
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The minority political parties were quiet during this time. People were content with the way Germany was being run, so why turn to extremist parties? Despite having 108,000 members in 1928, the Nazi Party only won 12 seats to the Reichstag in the election of that year. It was also in 1928, that the Nazi Party nearly went bankrupt. The Communists won 54 seats at this election. Moderate parties like the Centre Party and the Social Democrats easily won the 1928 election. In fact, the elections of the Golden Age of Weimar seem to indicate that extreme parties only flourished when an extreme situation occurred:
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