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Originally Posted by ElBandito
I think what we tend to lose sight of is that initially the Nazi party was a minority of radical elements who co-opted a cause and led a majority who were afraid to speak up...
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I thought the Hitler was tremendously popular right before and during the the beginning of the war?
Hitler brought the whole country out of one of the biggest depressions in history, and raised the standard of living of everyone that was "pure". Hitler was probably just as popular as FDR if not even more.
For the whole Jews part. From a civilian standpoint, they didn't know about the holocaust at the time or just chose to be ignorant, the Jews were probably treated in the same way as blacks were treated in the United States. The US was pretty anti-semitic at the time as well. I think it had to do more with the Nazi party hiding facts and the people too concerned about other interests to care about what was happening to them. That is the scariest part about any country, the people not even caring that they are being taken over from the inside.
Here is an article about why Hitler was so popular:
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0703a.asp
Here is the discussion on the cellar:
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=15017