The Nazi Party was able to gain popular support from a considerable proportion of the German people, through capitalising on the crises present in the Weimar Republic. The economic crisis that occurred between the period of 1919 to 1932 gave them, in the words of AJP taylor, “the wind in (their) sails” to destabilise the Weimar Government and the necessary tools to reach government. Germany’s already socially nationalistic spirit gave the Nazi party a platform to connect to the masses of people and to be wielded into political support. The instability of a fragile and fragmented multi-party Reichstag coalition, where the democratic system provided no party with an absolute majority, was ripe for exploitation. Without a majority, governments were more prone to lose a motion of no-confidence and suffer from impotence to deal with national crisis faced. These were all able to be exploited by the Nazis, who capitalised on the widespread perception that the Weimar Republic was weak in order to win votes and offered the NSDAP as a viable alternative government. The economic conditions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles and the Great depression that would later follow, brought German frustration towards the republic to its maximum. From mid 1922, the German mark began to sharply decrease in value. Culminating to 1923, where the German mark was worth 4,210,500,000,000 against the US dollar. This hyperinflation not only had a profound effect on the German people, such as the increase in poverty when prices went up, but also a profound effect on the Nazi party. Catapulting it from a small fringe movement into a increasingly relevant voice of discontent and opposition to the Weimar Government. Growing rapidly to 20,000 members within that year. The Nazi party was able to exploit the economic disenchantment with the Government by promising populist economic policies. One such policy that resonated well with the German people who lost so much is point 7, “we demand that the state shall make it, its first duty to provide the opportunity for a livelihood and way of life for citizens….”. Those who saw their savings and fixed income vanish were more easily persuaded to join the Nazi party, such as pensioners, peasant voters from rural protestant areas, urban workers on income fixed by a contract and rural labourers. The Great Depression was the final nail in the Weimar Republic’s coffin. The crash of Wall Street in 1929 sent a ripple effect across the western world, affecting Germany greatly. Unemployment at the end of 1929 was at around 1.5 million and peaked at 5.6 million in 1932. The party foresaw the coming of the Great Depression and the Nazi party would then exploit the crisis. They believed the prosperity of the golden age would not last because the economic growth depended not on Germany’s strength but the world’s. Particularly the United States, who were supplying her with the loans needed to keep Germany working.When those loans stopped coming and the banks started asking for repayments, it had a dire effect on Germany’s finance. Reinforced by the decrease in world trade, German industry began to lay off workers in thousands. The decline in exports no longer produced enough cash flow to import raw materials and food needed for the masses.