The “appeal” of hitler was part of it but it seems that he was never as popular as we tend to think. Hitler rose to power on equal parts apathy, fear, anger, community organizing, manufactured crisis etc.
In the the homemade films you could see the fear in the eyes of some of the people as they gave the nazi salute. Diary entries from people who said they didn’t believe the official story on the reichstag fire but they didn’t mind being watched because they hadn’t done anything wrong. Other stories talked about the loss of their children to the reich.
Most telling was the opening narration that said something along the lines of “We didn’t all support the reich but we were all guilty. We all breathed the same air”.
Thanks for the info.
You’re correct CC, I could of used a more appropriate word vs. “appeal”. That was the first one that sprang to mind.
I look at 0haha and what he’s been doing and the comparisons between him and what Hitler did are striking.