Reply #13: For a reasonable answer you have to start by looking at the terms

[jwirr]

of the treaty after WWI and add in the Great Depression. They were in a very bad economic fix. No one seemed to have answers to the joblessness and poverty that followed. They were looking for a leader. Hitler did not come out yelling about the Jewish people, or taking over the world, or concentration camps or anything threatening like that. He talked about rebuilding the old Germany before the crisis, the very thing that people longed for. That was all he needed to get elected. Once he solidified his power the SS made damn good and sure that the people followed him. But one of the biggest things we overlook is how charismatic he was. Not to us but to those people who were in a very serious economic crisis.