Who actually voted for Hitler?

How did Hitler come to power? Actually, it was because people voted for him.

But who?

Here's a nifty graphic that one doesn't see every day.

[Civics and Citizenship - Discovering Democracy Units]

It’s hard not to feel that after the end of the German Empire the mainstream Social Democrats to a certain extent blew it. When Weimar Germany’s first great disaster (i.e. hyperinflation) struck, the SDs lost a lot of support both to the Communists and to the main protestant conservative party, the DNVP, which was indeed Germany’s most important party throughout the 1920s.

More importantly though, it was from the DNVP itself, after the second great disaster (the Great Depression) struck, that the Nazis gained a lot of their support, as well as from first-time voters.