Your explanation is not a plausible explanation for their growth.

My explanation is not only the most plausible, it is also the accepted state of research in historiography. While your “explanation” is nothing but debunked conspiracy theories and idle speculation.

you seem to have taken this book as a reason to absolve many people of their more than willing participation in Nazi society.

I have done no such thing. Fuck you, you asshole. I am done with you.