What crowd of people did the fascist appeal to in Germany? Was it the middle class, (which I think is correct)...

What crowd of people did the fascist appeal to in Germany? Was it the middle class, (which I think is correct), and what made them alienated to support Fascism? I would appreciate if someone could clarify what the social hierarchy looked like at this time.

Yes, it was the middle class. They were alienated because they both suffered from the depression and didn't have any "support system".

The working class had unions and the socialist party, whereas the middle class were completely lost. They were the people who most strongly felt a feeling of abandonment.

Rural and working class

The middle class didn't like Hitler.

Lower middle class and disillusioned working class.

Best way to understand changes through which the Nazi voting body went through 20s and 30s is to look into the structure of SA and SS. The SA were all working class with a strong hate for capitalism. Their rhetoric, paroles, organization - everything was a copy/paste of Communist Party, just with a strong notion of nationalism and anti-semitism.

The SS were usually middle class people. Lawyers, teachers, clerks, shopkeepers, doctors, etc. Many unemployed lawyers found service in Algemeine SS as administrators. The so-called "little Eichmanns."

As soon as Hitler progressed in politics and started making deals with nidustrialists and capitalists (who in return invested large sums of money into his movement), it was obvious that the "S" in NSDAP would have to go. Night of the Long Knives was essentially a showdown between working class and middle class inside the Nazi movement. Once Rohm began calling for "second revolution", it was time to react.

I remember reading a pretty good article about this. Basically lower middle class was their core electorate, but in 1932 other groups also voted for Nazi. They were the also popular among peasants and rural workers. The cities were dominated by SPD and KPD voters.

It's ironic, because DAP and later NSDAP supposed to be a party for workers but it was never popular among actual factory workers.

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Nazis was literally hillbilly party who believe in conspiracy theories, myths and other shit, then they proceeded to steal the living shit out of everything and everyone

Boris Johnson mentions in his book, The Churchill Factor, that upper-class Brits supported Nazism because they saw it as a bulwark against Communism and the idea of redistribution of wealth. It might be the same for upper-class Germans, although Hitler did promise to eradicate class distinction I think.

Upper-classes in Germany had their own parties. I think most of them voted for DNVP.

But isn't old Boris one of those Tory idiots who say that Mosley was a Nazi? Whole different thing, being a British fascist.

That's ad hominem friend

Statistically the average Hitler voter was:
>poor
>rural
>Lutheran
>female

>it was obvious that the "S" in NSDAP

This is the worst legacy of the German language. The "sozialistische" in Nationalsozialistiche does not refer to economic socialism, but is more correctly translated as "Social", in that it refers to social policy rather than economic policy. Its social policy is Nationalism. For example, as in the "Christian Social Party" of austria, which was basically Hitler's inspirational political party. He even outlines it in mein kampf. Or also, Mussolini's "Italian Social Republic".

In some translations of Mein Kampf, the Christian Social Party is referred to as the "Christian Socialists" even though they were hardly socialist

Germans always use "Soziale" and "Sozialistische" interchangeably, for example the "Sozialdemokratische Party" was openly socialist, but it's translated as "Social democratic" in English, because the "Social" is the prefix, not the suffix. Whereas the "Social" in Nationalsozialistische is the suffix, so its translated as "Socialist" in English.

It has nothing to do with economic policy but all to do with Social policy, and because of misunderstandings of the german language and colloquial usage of the words social interchangeably with socialist, people think Hitler was a socialist.

Having said that, Hitler's economic policies were keynesian and left of centre. He built the world's first social-democratic welfare state.

>He built the world's first social-democratic welfare state.

His predecessor Bismark is the one to claim that credit with his oddly progressive (for his time) policy.

But yes the nazis under Hitler were very Keynesian, were it not for the war I imagine the massive spending and loans would have crushed germany economically at some point.

Bismark wasn't progressive, he integrated the unions into the state and crushed those who didn't submit, pretty much the same thing Peron did in Argentina later on following his model.

most of the borrowing and debt was internal, and he had paid them in I.O.U.s which were more valuable than actual money, since German currency was worthless, and they were trading between them and making wealth off of the I.O.U.s. The industrialists were very pro-Nazi so I doubt they were in any rush to bring down the Nazi government, they were happy to keep trading between themselves with the I.O.U.s, and the government was happy to let them, as they continued to create wealth and boost the german economy.

Nazi economy was basically Juche.

Also massive industrial production and exports would have eventually offset any deficit.

The whole "Hitler was facing economic collapse if he didn't start the war" is a post-war anglo-jüdische myth

Still, Bismarck did implement old age pensions, accident insurance and employee health insurance.

>What crowd of people did the fascist appeal to in Germany?

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Good post. Will integrate this with my databanks.

National Socialism is not fascism.

didn't pretty much everyone end up liking them because they were the only ones going around doing shit? like all the other parties just sat around jerking off laughing at the nazis for rallying, then they wonder how the fuck the Nazis got support and BTFO out of everyone.

Same as it dos now really, thems that need an authority to tell them to take it up the shitter because they're too ashamed to admit they crave sweaty man love