J'Oconnor on Hitler

Barbara Laurence cns at cats.ucsc.edu
Wed Nov 4 17:04:33 PST 1998


One careful empirical study I learned of years ago in Berlin concluded that there was no good predicator of support for Hitler. Not income, occupation, place of residence, age, marital status, etc. The study was done by Uta Liebfried -- a activist scholar in the 1960s -- and was confined to Berlin and environment. This suggests perhaps the importance of psychological factors (as anticipated by W. Reich and others). Jim O'Connor



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