The NSDAP utilized a leftist worker's movement appeal (method)
while making good on their promises unlike the Bolsheviks, in
order to get into power (goal). That accounted for the bulk of
the democratic momentum. Yes, they also added many peripheral
items to appeal to the Volkish, to the Catholics, to adjacent
fascist allies, and to the remnants of the native constitutional
conservative upper class. That accounted for the support from
much of the elite behind the democracy. I would say it was quite
a bit more complex than your portrayal. The NSDAP rose to power
primarily as an anti-Communist party only a few years after a
Communist revolution in .de They combined the moderate liberal
party with the traditional values conservatives and appealed to
a defeated, horrified, confused and shamed nation. Had they
stopped there, history would remember them as a miracle. They
tried to take on too many threats, and not enough real ones. If
they had thrown all their effort into crushing the Soviets, and
liberating mainla