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The German National People's Party (German: Deutschnationale Volkspartei) (DNVP) was a right wing national-conservative party in Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic.


It was led by Alfred Hugenberg from 1926. It was dissolved with all other political parties in 1933. In the last years of the Weimar Republic the DNVP co-operated with the NSDAP.


Generally hostile towards the Weimar Constitution, the DNVP spent most of the inter war period in opposition despite holding around 50 seats in the Reichstag. Largely supported by landowners and wealthy industrialists it favoured a monarchist platform and was strongly opposed to the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.


In 1931, the DNVP, the NSDAP and the Stahlhelm veterans' organisation briefly formed an alliance known as the Harzberg Front. This served only to strengthen the NSDAP by giving it access to funding and political respectability while obscuring the DNVP's own less extreme platform.


The following year, the DNVP became the only significant party to support Franz Von Papen in his short lived tenure as Chancellor. Performing badly in subsequent elections, the party ended up as junior coalition partners to the NSDAP on Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in 1933, supporting the Enabling Act that effectively abolished the Weimar Republic.


Hitler's patience with his conservative allies was limited, and the DNVP representatives in his first Cabinet were quickly excluding from power or bullied into resignation. Shortly thereafter, DNVP members were coerced into joining the NSDAP or retiring from political life altogether. The party was extinguished in the subsequent ban on all political parties other than the NSDAP.


Although the DNVP escaped condemnation as a criminal organisation after WW2, no serious attempt was made to recreate it as a political force in post war Germany.


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Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP) 1918-1933 (895 words)
Unter Hugenberg organisierte die DNVP mit der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP) 1929 den Volksentscheid gegen den Young-Plan, der die Höhe der deutschen Reparationszahlungen regelte.
Die gemeinsame Kampagne mit der DNVP gegen den Young-Plan steigerte jedoch das Ansehen der Nationalsozialisten in der rechtsgerichteten Wählerschaft ganz erheblich.
März trat die DNVP gemeinsam mit dem Stahlhelmbund als "Kampffront Schwarz- Weiß-Rot" an und erreichte mit 8 Prozent der abgegebenen Stimmen ein zwar eher mäßiges Ergebnis, aber sie sicherte damit der gemeinsamen Koalitionsregierung unter Hitler 51,9 Prozent aller Stimmen.
Class Project: DNVP Newspaper (1295 words)
The DNVP does not believe in the Ebert’s leadership to defeat the Bolshevists and fears that such rebellions will only continue to explode throughout Germany.
As for the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, the DNVP denounces any individual who conceded to the bullying of the West and demand its immediate repeal.
In addition, the DNVP recalls that as part of the Versailles Treaty the Rhineland territory was lost to French greed and Weimar betrayal is the reason.
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