ABSTRACT
Although the Nazi party should by rights have been completely discredited after the putsch, Bavarian Landtag elections of 1924 turned into a success for the NSDAP as voters defied Reich and Weimar Republic. In Murnau, the Völkischer Block, a substitute for the forbidden NSDAP, gained the majority of votes and the NSDAP was not to lose this position again until the Nazi dictatorship, although this voting behaviour was very much at odds with general assumptions about traditional Catholic country folk of Upper Bavaria. New völkisch clubs such as the Association for Germans in Foreign Lands strengthened the cause of Nazi ideology. Even local movie theatres intensified nationalist and militarist leanings by staging documentaries and films about the First World War. Economic turmoil persisted, which led to campaigns against department stores and consumer cooperatives.
