ABSTRACT
National Socialism is not the simple creation of a few men but is very deeply rooted in the social situation and cultural tradition of Germany. Germany, as much as any country in the Western world, has, in the last couple of centuries, been subject to rapid and extensive changes in its social and economic structure, especially industrialization and urbanization. These changes have come into a society and a culture which more than those of Western Europe was bound up with the patterns and values of the pre-industrial era. Such continual and drastic change and instability has the effect of preventing large masses of the population from achieving a stable social position and orientation to cultural values. Anything which would contribute to the stability of German social life would greatly mitigate the susceptibility of the German people to appeals of this emotional character, an element which accounts for much of the revolutionary "dynamism" of Nazism.
