re: #128 n2stox

It wasn’t Naziism’s great ideas that led to their ascendancy, but people’s fear of communism, Jews (or, more accurately, the anti-Jew propaganda), and any other Bogeyman the likes of Goebbles could think up. .

The demographics of who joined the Nazi Party after 1933 is very revealing. Lapsed Protestants were more likely to join than practicing Catholics. University students & graduates joined in droves. Professionals such as journalists, lawyers, doctors, accountants and artists joined. Shop keepers more than farmers or factory workers. The Nazi propaganda was tailored to present the Nazis as modern, progressive & scientific. The anti-Jewish hatred was focused on race, not religion, and included many pseudo-scientific arguments about eugenics.