Source A
Dealing first with industry...from what we saw and heard we were greatly impressed by the fact that industrialists generally were showing great confidence in the future and were laying out capital freely on new works and in reconstructing and adapting the old ones...
Sir John Sandelman Allen, writing in 1928 after a visit to Weimar Germany.
Source B
A wonderful ferment was working in Germany. Life seemed more free, more modern, more exciting than in any place I had ever been... Everywhere there was an accent on youth. One sat up with young people all night in the pavement café the plush bars, on a Rhineland steamer or in a smoke-filled artist's studio and talked endlessly about life... Most Germans one met... struck you as being democratic, liberal, even pacifist. One scarcely heard of Hitler or the Nazis except as butts of jokes - usually in connection with the Beerhall Putsch as it came to be known.
William Shirer, an American journalist living in Berlin, writing in 1928.
Source C
Hitler leaving the National Socialist party headquarters, in the late 1920s.
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Examiner's view - I would suggest that these sources show that there were some groups who were prosperous and enjoyed a good life in this period but do not tell us about those groups such as the unemployed, who did not have much money, were not prosperous and were likely to want a change of government. The Hitler photo does suggest that he had respect and recognition within the Nazi party, so he was obviously still a potential threat. I would also point out that these sources are mainly about people in towns and cities - there is very little to tell us the feelings of people in the countryside or about specific groups such as the old, youth, church groups etc. i.e. they are not representative of the whole of German society.
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