There is an interesting book called ‘They Thought They Were Free’ by a journalist (I have forgotten the author’s name). It consists of interviews with a variety of Nazi Party members about why and how they joined the Party. There were a variety of reasons. The Nazis tried to be all things to all men.
Analysis of voting patterns in Germany leading up to 1933 shows the electorate becoming more and more radicalized. They were abandoning centrist parties and moving to the radical left and right, the Communists and Nazis.
And I would guess that further analysis would show the split to be between those that thought they had a right to other people's stuff, versus the old middle class who wanted to keep what they had
>>They were abandoning centrist parties and moving to the radical left and right, the Communists and Nazis.
That’s a European “left and right”, which has little to do with how Americans tend to view “left and right”.
See the third quote on my FR home page, the two paragraph one by Hayek, for comments on the German Communists and Nazis by a contemporaneous observer.