Multi-force methodology to explain Nazism or capitalism

The rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany has been explained in many different ways, by pointing at many different forces. Perhaps the best way is not to get bogged down in trench wars about the unique importance of this or that force, but to acknowledge all forces that are put forward and see their unique combination in that part of the world at that particular moment in history.

Forces that combined in Germany of the 1930s include the militaristic orientation in Prussia, the authoritarian kinship system and the lack of tropical colonies that existed already, the traumas left after Germany’s defeat in WWI, as well as the political vacuum and the economic poverty that arose after WWI.

The same methodology of acknowledging all forces that are put forward and seeing their unique combination in time and place has been adopted in explaining the rise of capitalism in western Europe.