Analyzing Documents

1. Hitler's Rise to Power.....In 1919, Hitler joined the National Socialist German Workers Party, later known as the Nazi party. It was a marginal party that only received one million votes in 1924. By 1932, however, the Nazi party, with Hitler at its helm, was Germany's largest party. Many factors contributed to Hitler's surprising rise to power. In 1932, there was a poster display in Berlin that tells voters, "We want work and Bread! Elect Hitler!" It also shows in the poster a man with a sludge ham on his shoulder.

Question

1. According to the above, which factor that aided Hitler's rise to power?

a. anger over World War I

b. social considerations

c. the economy

d. racial and religious prejudice