National Socialism's basic anti-soviet attitude in Adolf Hitler was evident nearly from the beginning.
"If land was desired in Europe, it could be obtained by and large only at the expense of Russia, and this meant that the new Reich must again set itself on the march along the road of the Teutonic Knights of old, to obtain by the German sword sod for the German plow and daily bread for the nation." (1)
Hitler was a son of a civil servant in the middle class family himself. His father wanted him to become a civil servant too but Hitler "rebelled against the paternal plan, resolved 'on no account' to obey, become a painter and fell into poverty in the process." Along with the rebellious nature of his youth Hitler respected and accepted the authority of his father. And this is a basis of s classic middle class structure of attitude from a child to an adult specifically when the financial situation of the family is not so easy.
Hitler idealised his mother, Klara Hitler, it appears that the only time he cried was when she died), he was very close to his mother but not so with his authoritarian father, who would also frequently beat young Adolf.
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck was his idol, Hitler admired his theories of unification of the German nation and fight against the Austrian dynasty (Hapsburg's) as well as anti-Semite Lueger and the German national Johannes Schöner. They all influenced Hitler greatly and shaped his development. From them his aim became national-imperialistic.
Führer recognised effectiveness of organised power in "masses for every political movement."
His further aim was to "implement nationalistic imperialism with methods he has borrowed from Marxism, including its technique of mass organisation." However, eventually, it was the "authoritarian freedom-fearing " structure rather than his personal charisma that enabled his propaganda.
It was common that lower middle class would support National Socialists (bourgeois democracies) but there was something that made them change their political position. The social situation (its psychological structure), for lower middle class. "Fascism's lower middle class was exactly the same as liberal democracy's lower middle class, only in different historical era of capitalism (1930-1932)." (1)
"National Socialism polled its new votes almost exclusively from the German National Party and the smaller faction parties of the German Reich. Only the Catholic center maintained its position(...). It wasn't until the later election that National Socialism also succeeded in making an incursion into the masses of industrial workers. The middle class was and continued to be the mainstay of the swastika. And it was this class, championing the cause of National Socialism, which stepped onto the political tribunal and halted the revolutionary reconstruction of society during the most severe economic convulsion the capitalist system had experienced (1929-32)." (1)
Until mentioned years, middle class was given not enough importance as the focus was rather on development of political reaction and authoritarian leadership of the state and politicians were not familiar with psychology of the masses.
From now on, "the rebellion of the middle class" model was given far more attention to, and eventually National Socialism was turning into imperialistic nationalism, "which was intent upon eliminating every 'socialistic' from the movement and preparing for war with every available means, did not contradict the other fact that fascism, viewed with respect to its mass basis, was actually a middle class movement." And all this become an anti-capitalist and revolutionary .
The University of Winchester Journalism Course
History and Context of Journalism, part IV
Inspiration & links:
1. The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich - book
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_mother
