In Response to Declan Conroy

In response to this.  

I think that the phenomenon that Declan is describing in his post demonstrates that power of economics to influence other parts of a countries social issues.  Such as the current war in Iraq, where people who would normally support the war don't want to pay taxes for it in a crippling economic time.  In Germany, Germans were easily convinced by the words of Hitler because of the severe economic troubles the country was facing, even though many of those people did not feel that way during times when Germany was at its strongest economic times.   The extremely nationalistic aspect to Hitler's campaign was rooted in the economic troubles the country was facing, putting Germany back on the top of the world's nations, a list compiled from economic strength.