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There are 2 reasons:

The first is the same reason why millions of people supported Obama or Mao or Pol Pot or Stalin

Hitler wasn't the largest mass-murderer. That title goes to either Mao or Stalin in terms of sheer numbers or to Tamerlane (Timur-i-Lang) in terms of raw % of humanity at the time murdered

People follow charismatic figures. Sometimes these are good figures, sometimes they are neither good nor bad, but sometimes they are evil

have you watched any of Hitle's speeches? He had a charismatic way of talking and inflaming the crowd. Add to this the hypnotic chanting heil , add to that the flaming torches and the symbols like the Swastika and you have a perfect way to mesmerise people. The same thing happens at political rallies in the US -- not only Democrat or at religious ceremonies

The second reason is he was the person at the right time for his actions.

To understand this clearly you need to see

A. that the roots of WWII dates back to the last part of the 18th century, to 2 events: the French revolution and to the partitions of the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth

1. The French revolution led to the creation of nationalism -- prior to that kingdoms were not so nation-based, and you had vast multi-cultural entities that survived quite nicely. an example is the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. In 1683 it was the largest country in Europe comprising of what is now Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Western Ukraine into Moldavia and it had 4 main ethnic groups: Poles, Lithuanians, Ruthenians and Jews with large numbers of Armenians, Gypsies, Germans and Romanians. And it worked rather well

2. This P-L commonwealth was sick during the 1700s because it was a republic surrounded by dictatorships and the members of the parliament reached a deadlock and were heavily influenced by Moscowite money. however it trundled along, because the Austrians and Russians realised that it was good to have a buffer state between them -- this allowed the Austro-Hungarians and the Russians to ally together against Turkey and against Napoleon. But Frederick the Great of Prussia changed that and Prussia, Austria and Russia gobbled up the PLC by 1793. This now meant that GErmany, Austria and Russia bordered each other -- leading to tensions.
THAT lead to WWI. WWI lead to WWII.

back to point 1 -- during the 1800s erstwhile multi-lingual states began to force people to speak the same language, so the English decimated Cornish, Welsh, Scottish, Gaelic etc. and the Prussians implemented standard Low German and the Russians forced the dialects of Ruthenia out. This also lead to heavy duty chauvanism -- during the middle ages the various europeans would know Latin and French as means to communicate, but with that gone, each formed their own little world, suspicious of the rest

B. Germany during WWI fought mainly outside it's borders. The German generals in 1918 realised that they would lose the war and so sued for peace before they started really losing.

Smart on their part, but confusing to the common man -- German armies were all based on foreign soil, they had won a few battles and Russia had collapsed. Why surrender?

The common man didn't understand that the German generals could see that 6 months on they would lose oil supplies, weaponry capabilities etc.

This led to the "stab in the back" theory where Germans looked for a culprit for why they lost. People are basically stupid and they look for a simple answer, not the complex one above. And what simpler and stupider answer than "Blame the Jews"? Forget the fact that Jews fought in the German and Austrian armies with distinction and that they had assimilated very well into the German world. Forget the fact that Jews in what is now Russia supported the Germans because they were more tolerant than the pogrom-inspired Russians.

No, it was the Jewish bogeyman's fault

And then of course this was inflamed by the presence of Trotsky and the late 1800s Moscowite lie "The Protocols of the elders of Zion" -- (haven't read that? Read it to see how lies can be made believable. That one book is at the heart of much of modern anti-semitism)

Why do I not consider Germans of today anywhere like the Germans of 1938? Because the Germans had war INTO Germany. Americans, British and Russians fought into Germany, turning its cities to rubble, bringing hell on earth to them and the Germans realized that war is not "German soldiers on someone else's land" but hell to them

If we had fought INTO Germany in 1918-1919, then WWII would not have happened

But that wasn't done, so Hitler rode on the "stab in the back" theory and on the

C.Economic crisis