his little tobacco store. It was not members of the Northeim SA who were to interrupt Quefurt's business; truckloads of Storm Troopers form another town was brought in for the occasion. Both of these men were neighbors, it was hard for even the most involved Nazi of Northeim, to be so ruthless as to go against someone who had grown up on the same block as him. In July 1932, before the election the NSDP resorted to mass propaganda, where model texts were given out to target each individual group of people. Including war widows, pensioners, war wounded, Communists, women, young workers, union members, and wives of the bourgeoisie. Nazi's went door to door handing out leaflets and numerous Gau speakers speaking at packed halls accompanied this. When Northeim's people went to the polls on Sunday, July 31, the Nazi's received 62 percent of the vote.
Another important reason behind the particular experience in Northeim and the
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