At all events the urban lower-middle classes, who had lost their savings, shops, businesses and livelihoods during the inflation, and the peasantry rallied to the cause; in the Bavarian elections the Völkisch Sozialer Block became the second largest party with 17 per cent of the vote. In the country as a whole the former Nazis and völkisch groups of the north and Bavaria who had allied to form the National Socialist Freiheitsbewegung (Freedom Movement), gained thirty-two seats in the Reichstag with some 6 per cent of the votes cast.
