Nazi Party followers faced the greatest uncertainty and self-esteem threats

Evidence

Thus, to be “truly German” was to be anti-Enlightenment, anti-French, and anti-Jewish. It should be noted that the main followers of the Nazi Party—the Mittelstand (Dawidowicz, 1975; Shirer, 1960)—were those farmers, artisans, and lower-level white-collar workers who did not fare well under the industrialization that stemmed from the Enlightenment. Thus, the “true German identity” was most salient for those portions of the German population that faced the greatest uncertainty and threats to self-esteem. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 915

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Scapegoating requires large shared frustrations plus a blaming ideology. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 794