Nazi vote share gained an extra 2.5 percentage points in Danat-exposed cities.

Evidence

Figure 2 summarizes our main finding. It plots the distributions of the change in vote shares for the Nazi Party between September 1930 and July 1932 – the last election before the banking crisis, and the first one after it. The Nazis gained votes everywhere, but the distribution is sharply shifted to the right for Danat-exposed cities, where votes for the NSDAP increased by an additional 2.5 p.p. (equal to 15% of the mean vote change and 0.37 sd). — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 96

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 96
  • recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source
  • XREF: connects to: Nazi gains in exposed cities appeared only after the banking crisis, not before.; German banks’ nationwide lending allows cross-city identification of crisis effects. — Sebastian Doerr et al., Financial Crises and Political…, 76; Danatbank-exposed cities saw a 2.9-percentage-point extra rise in Nazi vote share. (+8 more)

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