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The pronounced socialist image of the NSDAP that had come across strongly during the campaign… had plainly alienated middle-class support. The attacks of the Nazis had seemed to many little different from the class-warfare of the Communists. The similarity of ‘red’ and ‘brown’ varieties of ‘Bolshevism’ appeared proven by the NSDAP’s support for the Communist-inspired strike of Berlin transport workers during the days immediately preceding the election… Many shocked rural voters—a mainstay of party supporters since 1928—indeed stayed away from the polls as a result of the Nazi support for the strike… saw the Berlin transport strike as evidence that Hitler was arms in arms with Marxism… thought Hitler far on the Left. (en) |
