That a majority of Germans "supported" Hitler is a belief devoid of supporting evidence. Every report from Germany in the thirties agrees that public opinion was absolutely terrified of war and completely unsupportive of Hitler's adventurist policies, whatever Greeley may blather about "aspirations of the German spirit."
>...The military might have been able to dump him till 1937. After
>that he >was firmly in power...
This is totally untrue. The military leadership was prepared to overthrow Hitler in 1938 (the "Oster Conspiracy"). The only thing that saved Hitler was that Chamberlin capitulated at Munich *even though the British cabinet were well aware that Hitler would be overthrown the moment he moved against Czechoslovakia*. Indeed, the whole US-British strategy in World War II--exemplified by the Unconditional Surrender doctrine, the unrelenting terror bombing of the German proletariat, the refusal even to consider Nazi offers to transfer the whole Jewish population out of Europe--was premised on the absolute need to keep Hitler in power until he could be replaced by an Allied Occupation Army. Only thus could the Allies be secure against their worst nightmare--a resurgence of the European proletarian revolution of 1917-1919. Of course, that was never publically admitted to be the reason for their policy. But the famous Coulondre-Hitler dialogue of Sept.1 1939 made it very clear.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64