![]() ![]() Enough enthusiasts could always be found to stage enormous public shows of support such as the annual Nazi Party rallies. As Doris Bergen writes, “Smooth functioning of the system did not require all Germans-or even most-to share every tenet of Nazi ideology. ![]() ![]() Within Nazi Germany, everyone did not support Nazism or the Nazi regime to the same degree and to the extent suggested by iconic photographs and film footage of Nazi-staged spectacles. ![]() Antisemitism and Support for NazismĬultural explanations focus on values, beliefs, and prejudices, particularly antisemitism of various forms, including Nazi antisemitism. Interpretations of individuals’ motivations fall into two broad categories: first, cultural explanations (including ideology and antisemitism) and second, social-psychological ones (fear, opportunism, pressures to conform and the like). For the Holocaust as other periods of history, most scholars are wary of monocausal explanations. In addition, usually a combination of motivations and pressures were in play. Because the Holocaust involved people in different roles and situations living in countries across Europe over a period of time-from Nazi Germany in the 1930s to German-occupied Hungary in 1944-one broad explanation regarding motivation, for example, “antisemitism or “fear,” clearly cannot fit all. ![]()
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