How much of national socialism's appeal was simply aesthetics?

Yes! People in 2017 are becoming interested in ethnonationalism again because of the fabulous uniforms of the nazi era! 40% of all newborns having parents from foreign countries and "multiculturalism" resulting in nothing but horrible in group/out group relations surely has nothing to do with it!

>>2377019
A lot. Especially Italian Fascism.

>>2377038
>>>/pol/

>>2377019
Outside of the "strongman" image, next to nothing.

Much of it. Most of it, for modern Nazi lovers.
5 minute discussion with any of them will show you they are primarily drawn by aesthetics and pretty ignorant about essence of Nazism, it's real-life impact, and history in general.

>>2377038
There's a huge difference between ethnonationalism and Nazism.
And to worship GERMAN ultranationalists as a non-German and call yourself nationalist is an extreme form of cognitive dissonance.
Don't get me wrong, I understand the appeal. When I was 14 or 15 I too idolized Germany, or better said a very simplistic version of Germany that existed in my infantile mind.
However I expanded my horizons, learned stuff. Nazi lovers don't do that, they never grow up, they remain shallow idiots drawn to simplistic and unrealistic vision of world.

A lot. Hitler's reflections on propaganda in Mein Kampf actually discussed this.

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>>2377085
This pretty much. I'm a Pan-European Fascist and even I realized german NatSoc was fucking retarded in some aspects.

Hell the Nazis were glad to murder other Europeans just because they weren't Germans.

Also don't get me started on that whole "muh aryans" "muh slavs aren't white" bullshit.