Some biographies of bandwagon Nazis in the Warthegau.

And so the stories continue, man by man. Of the 778 men (including twenty women) in my sample, 83 percent were NSDAP members. 35 percent had joined before 1933. Table 1 shows the occupations that the NSDAP members I was able to look up at the National Archives NSDAP Master File listed on their membership [...]

Second careers did not mean sinecures. In 1933 and 1935 decrees were passed allowing thousands of Old Fighters, especially Ehrenzeichenträger, into the civil service. Often presented as an unemployment measure or NSDAP welfare, it was more the act of a new regime securing its hold on power by replacing independent actors with men who owed [...]