Reply #197: not only lured them, but Hitler infiltrated and USED the workers' party...

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...to enable his rise to power and have a ready-made base with big numbers and anger at the economic situation. He insinuated himself into it and rose up through its ranks to become a leader. He then combined this ready-made base with the reactionary nationalist types of the time who were also angry with the status quo but more because they thought of the Weimar republic as too liberal, modern and yes, too ethnically mixed. So he found a common bond of populist anger which grew his numbers a few times over, but which was basically inconsistent with itself and a fundamentally dishonest platform. He later discarded and murdered the communists and others of similar mind, after they'd served his purposes, and kept the folks who were basically attack dogs who could spread hate around so much that it became "normalized". All this is why we need to be very careful the same pattern doesn't happen again, with someone using circumstances and groups in similarly perverted ways.