J'Oconnor on Hitler

Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu
Thu Nov 5 11:38:48 PST 1998


Well, confining such a study to "the Berlin environment" was a good way to not capture anything. It has been well and long known that Hitler did especially well among rural Protestants. Barkley Rosser On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 17:04:33 -0800 Barbara Laurence <cns at cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:


> 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
>
>

-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu



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