Oh yes, I know Nick
It is the same today. As long as a Party is doing all right and people believe in it, they get lots of votes. The problem for the Germans was that once they voted the Nazi Party to power, they could not vote them out again....., and I bet the further we move towards 1945, the less supporters they had.
Nothing really new under the sun there is it?
The point is that Democracy is the best "invention" we have made and the Germans learned the hard way what it ment to vote that away.
Cheers
Stig