Why did millions of people vote for Hitler? Did they really believe

yes and he did for a time. he got a lot of praise pre ww2

>>3119353

Could the same be said for trump?

>>3119372
Labourite here:
Fuck off.

>>3119372
Yes. Only those from the right praised him. Everyone else knew what was happening. A popular reminder of the past. Doing the same exact thing.

Since the general public are fucking retards, they will elect a retard. Idiocracy at play here.

>>3119372
Trump's mostly in it for his ego's sake, while Hitler genuinely believed that Jews were a threat to society and that it was his duty to establish a thousand-year reich.

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>>3119405
why so upset cleetus?

>>3119347
>Why did millions of people vote for Hitler?
Cause Germany was in the economic shitter following the Great Depression, and its people had memories of the early '20s hyperinflation, the post-WWI chaos, and of course the 'humiliation' of Versailles (which Hitler and the like played up big time)

>Did they really believe he would /make Germany great again/?
Yes. Desperate times = desperate measures.

In 1932, the third biggest party behind the NSDAP and the SPD (who were basically the main party throughout Weimar) were the fucking Communists...Thalmann finished 3rd behind Hitler in the '32 presidential election

>>3119372
>>3119425
They are similar, both appealing to the masses, looking for scapegoats, ignoring the weak in favor of the strong.

But there are also huge differences. Hitler loved the nature and animals, he loved his people and he had clear ideas. Trump only loves himself, he is a turbo capitalist and he certainly doesn't give a shit about America. Trump also has no goals, he only opposes everything and now that he is in a position of power he doesn't really know what to do.
National socialism had a lot of support from intellectuals, the average iq from those tried at the Nurenberg trials was 128. Trump can hardly form a coherent sentence. He has no support from scientists, actors or artists.

>>3119681
>National socialism had a lot of support from intellectuals, the average iq from those tried at the Nurenberg trials was 128.

The NSDAP was a whole conflagration of people, and support.
There was no core voter demographic, but generally Protestant (since Catholics voted Zentrum) and middle-class (workers voted SPD/KPD, upper class any of the established conservative parties)

but I am interested as to any specific intellectuals who backed them. there's Carl Schmitt, and Rosenberg had an academic background.

also, the whole path to power: Trump is a known public figure whose own establishment party barely supports him; Hitler was a social outcast who took over a marginal party, which in turn deified him

>>3119536
this

>>3119681
>ignoring the weak
Hitler did not ignored the weak, he aimed to kill them. Quite literally.

>he loved his people and he had clear ideas
>Nazism had a lot of support from intellectuals
Incorrect.

>the average iq from those tried at the Nurenberg trials was 128
Fun fact: The smartest guy tried there was not even a Nazi.

>>3119740
To be fair, the greatest minds of Nazi Germany were smuggled to America instead.

>>3119706
My knowledge is limited. But as far as I know back then you had a lot of small parties and a large part of the people was either very left or very right wing. So it's not really impressive to make a small party big.
I guess the situation could be very close to what we see today in America. Trump isn't really supported, but the hatred between Reps and Democrats means they keep each other weak and in the end Trump wins.

Martin Heidegger was national socialist, and just look at all the scientists who worked for Hitler, they produced rockets and even the first jet fighter. Though I guess a war forces you to accept your leader no matter what, still, something like today, where Trump ignores the vast majority of scientists who say global warming is real, would have been unthinkable back then.

>>3119405
>Labourite
Stopped reading right there.

>>3119372
He hasn't accomplished anything, so no.

>>3119347
sometimes people do really stupid shit when they are upset

>>3119347
Because Hitler promised stability.

To understand why, a brief economic/political history:
>Mid-1922: Hyperinflation really kicks into gear, with the already-inflated mark jumping by thousands of percent a month, 1 USD = millions of marks
>1923: Weimar Republic claims it can no longer afford the reparations by Versialles, French/Belgies occupy the Ruhr
>Rentenmark introduced backed by bonds indexed to the market price of gold; but everybody loses their savings that they had accrued; as nothing could undo the conversion rates which at their worst fell to 1/3rd of their conversion value
>Nonetheless conversion stands steady at 4.2 old marks to 1 RM and the economy stops shitting itself for a second in assistance with US-based loans
>1928: NSDAP wins 2.6% of the vote
>1929: The Great Depression happens and those loans shit themselves too, American Banks withdraw and unemployment skyrockets

Right. So in round 2 of 'oh shit we're fucked', there is Finance Minister Bruning. His policies are rejected twice by a coalition of Socialists, Communist and NSDAP in 1930. Bruning says fuck you, and gets Hindenburg to dissolve parliament with emergency laws. The result is a massive deevolution of parliamentary power; the NSDAP win around 19% in the elections that followed.

Further devaluation of currencies in the 1930's, led by the UK, made their goods much cheaper, and Germany found it impossible to get money into the country. Instead they just fucked around cutting state spending/stopping the dole/cutting health benefits.

>>3122298
Part 2. It's important to note that there is regular street violence (Zusammenstöße) and intimidation between the Red Front (commies' version of the SA) and SA Brownshirts. The SA-like organisations were not illegal and (in the SA's case) not neccessarily towing the socialist (read: nazi) line until the Stennes Revolt in 1930 gets rid of the last of the moderates in charge.

>1932: NSDAP wins 37.3% of election - their 'High Water Mark' in any free or fair election - the economy is still in the toilet
>NSDAP members involved in 3/11 Cabinet seats, including Hitler chancellor
>Hitler asks the senile Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag and get elections, he agrees
>6 days before elections, Nazis burn the reichstag and suspend civil liberties, raiding the offices of the KPD (communists)
>1934: NSDAP win 43.9% in an election that was HEAVILY policed by the brownshirts (literally featured armed brownshirts with machine guns and dogs on chains), '''banned'' all communists (some had been killed; and for others harm was heavily implied), and pressured socialists
>They form government with an 8% minor party, now they have ''''democratic''' power
>Hitler begins working on The Enabling Act - a bill that allows hitler to make laws without the reichstag
>It passes without a proper majority due to Goring cutting out the 81 seats currently held by the KPD, effectively making their votes worthless (they were not banned due to fear of an uprising, though they would likely be killed by the SA clandestinely if they took their seats)
>SA men intimidate deputies and Hitler talking about muh Christian yurop and dem Commies, Centrists hurriedly back it
>Only the Socialists vote against it
>Nazi Germany happens

So; OP, the short answer to your question is:
1. Economy was in the toilet for the second time in 10 years.
2. Hitler promised economic miracles including jobs and stability and blamed 'da jooz'.
3. Hindenburg's senility
4. Violence in the streets from Communists.

>>3119347
Germans are sheeps who love the image of a strong leader.

>>3119353
>praise=reality
why do /pol/shits always say this? praise by whom, anyway? and ""praise"" means jackshit if you haven't made a serious study of the inner workings of a country, and I can just imagine that many observers were simply interpreted at face-value propaganda spectacles are reality, as OP does so blatantly in his posting of a FUCKING PROPAGANDA PHOTO

>>3122340
>G*rmany amirite guys xD?
>(((Krauts)))

Read the quality posts
>>3122298
>>3122336
in the thread or fuck off

>>3119347
Economically he and Mussolini did pretty good. FDR's New Deal was actually inspired by what they were doing for the economy in Europe.

>>3119681
>he loved his people
>he had clear ideas.
....

>>3122528
>FDR's New Deal was actually inspired by
That's practically impossible. If Hitler did good job, why his policy rely on heavily useless army and weapons. Looting was his endgame as he and his fellow gangsters have no clue about economy not to mention other things exposed in his book.

>>3119747
>To be fair, the greatest minds of Nazi Germany were smuggled to America instead.
>implying ANY of those "greatest minds" were formed in Nazi Germany and not by their aacademic upbringing in Wilhemine and Weimar Germany.
stop perpetuating memes.

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>>3119347
Because he looked like a well endowed, beautiful, BLUE eyed man with a deep, bass voice!!!

>>3122499
He did though, he created an generous welfare state and had various projects to decrease unemployment via running a secret massive deficit. Which is why he invaded Poland in 1939.

>>3122695
>he created an generous welfare state
[citation needed]
Weimar Germany had a more thorough welfare state than Nazi Germany. Nazi policies and those of previous conservative governments proceeded to gut if because "muh parasitic poor people"

>had various projects to decrease unemployment via running a secret massive deficit. Which is why he invaded Poland in 1939.
yes