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And Hitler himself wasn't the most objective or scientific of people when it came to the issue either. Many think he only started having a true hatred for Jews originally because he blamed them for the WWI loss, which ended pretty abruptly for the average German soldier; coupled with anti-Communist views that at the time jived well with these theories, and adding on top a dose of common ethnonationalism, we can see it wasn't a theory-first approach, it was a politics-first approach that found convenient bedfellows.
In fact I think an understanding of Nazism should always start with these historical roots: a broken economy, a weird time for German nationalism, common popular disorder, growing controversial appeal of Communism, a feeling of international persecution and disrespect, etc. At least personally, I think our modern conception of Nazism as a wholly theoretical and radical construct appealing to closet racism and abetted by apathetic masses misses the mark quite widely when it comes to why Nazism was popular and/or able to take over a whole country to such an extent.
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