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.

Hitler - The moustache

Mussolini - his bald head.....and his hats

Franco -I wouldn't put him anywhere in the same league with those two. He used the Germans for his own ends. He was not near the butcher that the other two were although he could be brutal.

I knew an old woman who immigrated here from Spain. She was upper class, Castilian. She said they were worried about communists taking over and seizing property. Franco prevented that. She named her son Franco in his honor.