re: Why do you think people flocked to Hitler?

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I'm not sure Hitler ever had a majority.

He had widespread support, though.

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Given that there were periods in Weimar Germany where there were as many as 40 political parties and the system was proportional, there were virtually no parties ever getting a majority. The only one that may have were the SPD and I don't think they did either, certainly not after 1929. In 1932/1933 Nazi popularity reached it's electoral zenith. After the Reichstag fire and with Hitler already named Chancellor, they received their highest electoral figures in the March 1933 elections with 44% which allowed them to form a majority coalition with the old conservative DNVP.

The threat of leftist revolution and the persistent leftist violence and extremism of the entire post-WWI era had a huge role to play in Germans turning out for the NSDAP. Contrary to ex post condemnation of the German people, Hitler and the NSDAP didn't run on genocide and war. They did, however, openly run on destroying the Weimar Republic and returning to autocracy, which actually had a mass appeal given that Weimar Germany appeared completely incapable or competent governance and putting down the threat from Communist extremists.

Leftist pukes like Antifa create the conditions for the rise in right wing extremists. Any form of legitimacy given to political violence fundamentally undermines the precarious stability of democratic republics, which apparently the mainstream left doesn't seem to understand.