Ve'hoe wrote:
Do,,, you think that Germans,, just woke up one day, and said,,, "Hey,, Adolph is really a swell guy,,, lets make him God?"
It happens incrementally,, it is always a "jump". (that is why people don't believe it at first)... but that it is preposterous or excessive,,, doesn't mean it is not true,,, as we observed from hindsight,, it was both outlandish, excessive, and true,,,
No I think that in the wake of the war the Nazis used the hatred and bitterness of being scape-goated into their political campaign and won that way.