Prussia in context

>>1570985
Prussia didn't exist when nazis came to exist.

You don't seem to know the basics of the 21st century start there and then start to ask questions

>>1572404
Prussia was the largest state of Weimar Germany, and it's not like the culture just up and disappeared in 1932.

>>1570985
It depends as Prussians didn't think in unison. The Prussian aristocrats either begrudgingly accepted Hitler or outright opposed him, it was the plebs who loved the Nazis.

Statistically, the average Nazi voter was:

>poor
>protestant
>rural
>female

The plot against Hitler's life was mostly masterminded by Prussian officers who had been horrified that Hitler had appropriated their culture of "warring" and had tied to the nazi party, who prussian nobles perceived as a poor person's party.

Does that answer your question?

>>1572472
In this case he's similar to Trump. I don't mean the SJW meme that Trump is LITERALLY HITLER, but I mean the way how he managed to lure poor working class people away from traditional conservatives.

>>1572509
its called a demagogue

>>1572537
For sure. But they wouldn't vote for him if they didn't feel betrayed by the conservative elite to start with.

>>1572404
>Prussia didn't exist
kek

Prussia may not have been what it was before its butchering after WW1 but it certainly did exist. The Prussian lands were still called Prussian, they were a major part of the German state. Prussian identity and culture was still powerful, and the militarist traditions of Prussia still helped fill the German military with Prussians.

To say Prussia didn't exist just shows your own ignorance.

>>1572453
This is interesting. So Prussian aristocracy were anti Nazi, and the rest of the Prussians simply fell along the same lines as the rest of Germany?

Do you have any more information about the female part of the Nazi voter demographic? That's interesting, I've never heard of it.

>>1572472
This and other replies answers part of it, the context of Prussia in the rest of German, certainly.

But what I'm still wondering is, if the Prussians were apparently at worst no more supportive of the Nazis than any other typical German, and at best, despising Hitler and his party, why was there such a focus on tearing Prussia apart after WW2?

>>1573773
>Do you have any more information about the female part of the Nazi voter demographic?

German Women and the Triumph of Hitler, Richard J. Evans, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 48, No. 1, (Mar., 1976), pp. 123-175

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>>1573773
>So Prussian aristocracy were anti Nazi, and the rest of the Prussians simply fell along the same lines as the rest of Germany?

No, Prussian commoners were more nazi than southern Germans.

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>>1573810
fugging bavarian gommies :D:DDD

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>>1573773
>>1573798
to build on this, Paxton touches on this in his book, The Anatomy of Fascism, if I recall correctly.

Essentially what happened is: 1), nazis fed off of populist tensions among the general populace, winning just enough of the vote in 1932 to be necessary in the conservative coalition; 2), business leaders that wished to maintain conservative german politics as opposed to socialism "hedged their bets" on different conservative candidacies, which included the nazis. I imagine that many members of the Prussian aristocracy fell into this group wishing to defeat the bolshevik threat. 3), kind of an afterthought, but if I'm not mistaken, many Germans thought of these parties simply as upstarts that ended up in political gangs because they had to compete with other groups fighting in the streets. In this sense, many factions were violent, but no more violent than their counterparts. I could understand Prussian support for the nazis during elections simply because there were so many different groups and parties to choose from that essentially desired the same thing (no to communism).

I'm sure there were other factors that I'm forgetting (for example, in Italy, local ras in the squadrismo system would basically give handouts to the peasantry and solicit votes by promising better conditions if elected; I'm not sure if the nazis had a similar program).

Anyway, this is all in conjunction with what has already been mentioned

>>1572453
I love when people actually read.
Also, the highest concentration of Nazi Supporters in a specific demographic was Catholic Polish peasants in Marusian East Prussia.