no opposition

• Lack of opposition to the Nazis:

  • Many believed that the Nazis were improving Germany
  • Censorship + propaganda eliminated opposition
  • Fear of Gestapo and concentration camps
  • Political parties banned in July 1933
  • Night of the long knives eliminated opposition within the party
  • Trade unions banned in 1933 got rid of economic opposition
• many Germans credited the Nazis with resolving economic problems

  
  

  Hitler was viewed as a great leader who had restored German pride

  
  

  people worried they could be arrested by the Gestapo
• press censorship made it difficult for Germans to read any criticism of Hitler or the Nazis

  
  

  the Night of the Long Knives showed the deadly consequences of opposition

  
  

  political opposition was difficult after the banning of other political parties