what is nazism? how did it become popular in Germany?
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“Nazism” was an amalagmation of propaganda tools designed to create a populist movement around a cult of personality centred on Adolf Hitler.
Firstly Nazis were a German workers party in opposion to the international communist movement. Germans had fought in the war to promote the national identity of the German State which was still barely 50 years old.
Hitler, in opposition to the threat of communists was an attractive proposition, Not just to the workers who he wanted to entice through patriotism, but to the other parties in power who saw the Nazis as someone who were willing to get down in the gutter and scrap with the militant left wing, while they focused on reconstruction. Hilter was a little bit like Trump in the way he sold himself, keep telling everyone exactly what they want to hear and eventually you will have enough support to be taken as a serious contender.
