This book seems like someting written by ninth graders for a "history day" project.The writing is awful, the political analysis seems like it came from military intelligence or the CIA, and the title is absurd; most of the people talked about in the book seem to be outcasts from society and oddballs, not "common men." And why is there nothing about women? Mitchell and his assistants never confront the Marxist analysis of Nazism, either because they don't know it or are afraid to tackle it. Why did the German capitalists and landowners finance Hitler? We won't find the answer to this question from Nazism and the Common Man. Skip this book; its analysis rarely rises above the comic book level or that of a 1950's television show.