This book, written Detlef Mühlberger was meant to provide a distinct analysis of the composition on the occupational/ demographical framework of the Nazi party and electorate before Hitler gained authority in 1933 (p. 2). The goal is to find who joined the Nazi party before it was a federal party, basically who (what …show more content…
He talks about Theodor Geiger and Seymour Martin Lipset, who were some of the biggest backers of this theory and shows the point they made turned out to be founded on "little if any empirical evidence" but was still almost unquestioned for decades (p. 8-10). This idea that the Nazi Party was only a middle working class operation was tested with emergence of information about membership of the Nazi political party in the 1970s, along with computer advancements that gave the ability for a more complex summary of the electoral Nazi Party data (p. 36-37). In the initial years of the Nazi Party (1919-1923), they gained noticeable following from the working middle class and rich elites. This being said, it turned out notable class differences existed inside the Nazi Party. Mühlberger shows although while the social bases of the Nazi’s reflected the different peoples of Germany and every single group of people were represented, the authority of the party came from the rich class of