By Detlef Mühlberger
Was once the Nazi get together a predominantly middle-class get together or a people's get together? The social historical past of the supporters of Nazism has been the topic of severe debate because the early Thirties. Detlef MÜhlberger summarizes the reply to this question in his textual content. in line with broad sociological and psephological facts and supported through many tables, it unearths that Nazi aid got here from each social category point.
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But they were also able to secure significant support both from the working class and from the elite, giving the party a heterogeneous social base. It is the infinite variety in the mix of the social and occupational groups encountered at the branch level which makes it difficult to categorise the Nazi Party specifically as a middle-class party, even in its formative phase of development. The rag-bag of ideas peddled by the Nazis attracted a socially mixed following right from the start, ranging from aristocratic landowners and factory directors at the top of the social scale to day labourers and casual workers at the bottom.
The image of a people’s party, but one with an even more pronounced ‘middle-class paunch’ – to use Falter’s apt description [33: 372] – also emerges from the membership lists relating to a number of branches established in various parts of (mainly south) Germany, which provide an accurate insight into their social composition at a particular point in time. 6 per cent in the 320-strong Rosenheim branch, to a high of 30 per cent in the 535-strong Ingolstadt branch [101: 55–6]. 6 per cent of the branch membership [104: 211–12].
On the latter aspect Andrews’ analysis of 603 individuals who joined the Nazi Party between 1925 and 1928 is instructive. 3 per cent) of the 172 craftsmen in his data were ‘masters or self-employed craftsmen’ [4: 312]. 6 per cent rule’ does not take into consideration this frequency aspect. Nor does his approach make allowance for the impact of the age factor. The 1925 census returns show clearly that comparatively few bakers, butchers, locksmiths, painters, cobblers, carpenters etc. under the age of thirty, and not that significant a percentage of those under the age of forty, managed to secure independent status [102: 16–17 ].