[lbo-talk] Nazi popular support

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 14 05:56:39 PST 2008


My apologies if this is a hackneyed subject.

As part of my current Leni Riefenstahl kick, I bought and watched (rewatched actually since I saw it when it first came out ages ago) the Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, which if you don't know is a biography of Frau Riefenstahl. So, in the course of trying to exonerate herself and her work, Riefenstahl (who looks damn good for a 90-year-old) claims repeatedly that 90% of the German public supported Hitler and she was just part of the era, and so on and so forth.

90%!?!? I know the NSDAP led a mass movement and all, but this seems like an exaggeration to me. How much support did they actually have?

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