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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (30425)	5/22/2002 10:52:08 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Zeev, I am not asking you to understand Hitler, I am asking you to understand why people voted for him. He lied through his teeth and promised a solution that the Weimar Republic was unable to deliver. People were desperate enough to be willing to risk it. Xenophobia is a common response during a time of economic recession, and also when people feel threatened. Hitler promised to get rid of, not only the Jews, but the Communists, the Socialists, and the trade unions. When he took power, there was widespread violence in Germany, street fighting between Communists and reactionaries. Not only the Nazis but the Communists and the Socialists had armed themselves with armed paramilitary organizations. People wanted to feel safe. Hitler promised them safety. The Weimar Republic was underarmed, due to the Treaty of Versailles. The German military was not sympathetic to the Weimar Republic. Their values were too different. They did not like Hitler, either, but they liked him a little better than the pacifists and Socialists and Communists in the Reichstag. Same for the German industrialists. Much of the information I tell you I learned from Dr. Peter Black, historian for the Holocaust Museum, in a class about the history of the Nazi Party, at George Mason University.