I don't know how many big backers the NS actually had, in the tough years. I think they had Thyssen and not a hell of a lot more. Of course, once they got close to winning, then the bourgeois came sniffing around.
Bourgeois are still bourgeois, no matter who's in power. Plenty of them were undercutting NS when they were in power, and very ready to jump sides the minute it looked like the NS ship was going down.
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