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The reasons for their acceptance of totalitarianism are likely those equivalent to why so many modern Americans in the right-wing have accepted totalitarians like Trump. From an economic standpoint, as Robert Paxton points out, capitalism and fascism may not have always been the most friendly, but they made good bedfellows, see Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (New York: Vintage Books, 2004), 208. Likewise, fascists have a tendency to unify around nationalist rhetoric which strikes home, and also is very appealing to conservative values about women, children, traditionalism, and more, see Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (New York: Random House, 2018). Additionally, the mythmaking process, i.e. that process by which fascists distort or fabricate a mythic past for their nation and its selected "true" people (in Nazi Germany's case, Aryan Germans), becomes very easily believed and swallowed, especially when it becomes state propaganda used both inside and outside of schools in an aggressive strategy to reach all, see George S. Williamson, The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).
