His basic appeal was not any aspect of his real plans, but the emotional "make Germany great again". A country which had spent forty years building itself up in the world, and particularly in its own self-image, as one of the Great Nation, was thoroughly humiliated in 1918. Hitler offered to reverse that humuliation.

To add to the answer above. Hitler was an amazing public speaker. He could inspire German Patriotic feelings in a Frenchman...yeah, he was good.

To add to Mr. McClister and ImAlec's answers, which are fabulous, Germany was in a major economic depression at the time (as a result of WWI), and was looking for a savior. He told them what they so desperately craved to hear.

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Germany was an new country. It was not mature in democracy. It had been surprised and humiliated by defeat. The culture was rife with the poisoned ideas militarism, anti-semitism and idolisation of Prussian values. It was being strangled by the vengful attitudes of nations who had lost so many lives and so much accumulated capital. They wanted something or someone to believe in. Some wanted someone to blame. Some just wanted to have a fight. Some supported the Nazi "Revolution" because of the "National"-ism implied in the name and wanted the "Socialist" part to follow. (only to find Hitler had no intention of being socialist. It must be remembered that prior to January 1933 the National Socialists had never one the popular vote in a General election. Hitler became Chancellor not because the people found him appealling but because of the scheming of others who thought they could control him. Even after that he still could not get a clear majority of the popular vote until he systematically destroyed all opposing factions. So there were only a limited numbers who initially found anything about the Nazis appealing. Afterwards, they enjoyed the economic recovery, the festivals and the military victories. "eveybody was a Nazi". Afterward, when they were made to tour Belsen and Dachau, "nobody was a Nazi". As to what aspects of his plan they found appealing, I don't think many people got what his plan was. Yes, every house had a copy of My Struggle and gave them as Wedding presents but not many people read it or could if they tried. So very much of what Hitler did he had already communicated before hand and people still didn't get. Stalin had studied My Struggle but still did not believe Churchill when he told him that Hilter was about to attack the USSR. Hilter had always hated Communism, Slavs and Russians and said he wanted the lands of the east for the volk. It was never his intention to invade England. He said he wanted to teach the French a lesson, keep England from forming a western front behind him and then press on into the east. People didn't get it until after it happened. Now as to Germany being compelled into war by the Zionists. War was always an objective of Hitler. From childhood he saw that Germany needed to expaned and could only do so through war. He believed in the militaristic ideals of Prussia, believed the 19th Century philosophers (mostly German) who said that Germany could only be great through war, believed that war produced the best in German manhood and culture and through the crucible of war the State would destroy the internal and external racially impure enemies that threatened Germany's glorious future. Germany would triumph like the hero of a Wagnerian opera. It must be remembered that as for 1914-18 a lot of non-zionists died in that war, profited from that war and wanted Germany to pay for that war. Germany was being strangled by the vengence of gentiles.