Sociology of Nazism: the basic approaches of the historiography

Abstract

The article considers the key findings and achievements of the foreign historiography in the study of the social base of Nazism and the sociology of German Nazism at the beginning of the 1930s. The social composition of NSDAP, the party structures and voters are the main topics of the research. The emphasis is made on the national socialists’ support by the middle class and the working class as well as on the lines of scientific discussion on this topic.