TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1968//
TI  - Who Voted for Hitler? A New Look at the Class Basis of Naziism
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - O'Lessker, K
SP  - 63
EP  - 69
VL  - 74
IS  - 1
N2  - No agreement yet exists among social scientists as to sources of naziism's sudden electoral surge in 1930 and 1932. One widely held view, stressing the importance of the "outcast and apathetic," has been sharply challenged by S. M. Lipset, who argues that electoral support for Hitler was essentially a middle-class phenomenon. But on the basis of a new analysis of the voting returns, I conclude that a combination of former non-voters and traditional Rightists gave naziism its first great success, and the bulk of the middle-class vote went to Hitler only after the Nazis had established themselves as the largest non-Marxist party in Germany.<p />
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SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/224585
ID  - ref1
ER  -