>but despite his changes in appareance he really was a ex-soldier from a lower class environment, I guess the image part was to reassure it.
Was he lower class than a working class person of his time? Did he not consider himself part of what was an average working class German and through this he idealized a working class person because he was not part of it? Was the moustache part of the vision he had as a working class man that he wanted to fit into?
If he was lower class than an average worker, then it could have been an easier thing to have a vision of what an average worker was, trying to emulate it as best as possible, since he was detached from it. As far as I know, there was a point in time where he was homeless, could it be that he wanted to distance himself from that point of his life by trying to look the part of a working class person? Some people have it in them to idealize rich decadent people, it seems as if Hitler idealized competent working class people instead. It is like there was a point in time, before his political career, where he displayed a quality of being a blank canvas, through which he molded himself into a desirable person based on what not only he considered to be a respectable individual, but also what was considered by people at the time to be a competent individual who contributed to Germany.