Aufsatz(elektronisch)#184951Oktober 1977
TheGauleiterand the Social Origins of Fascism
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 399-430
ISSN: 1475-2999
Who supported National Socialism in Germany, and why? The conventional answers are well-supported and satisfying. The Nazis, we know, gained their decisive electoral support from those "middle" groups of German society that belonged neither to the elite nor to the proletariat and that lay outside the two great "camps"-Socialist and Catholic-of German political life. That means, to name the most significant categories, Protestant (or at least secularized) peasants, artisans, shopkeepers, and white-collar workers, and even some nonunionized manual workers, most of them probably skilled.
