H/W: Why was their so little opposition
to the Nazis between 1939-45?
Hitler was a master of manipulation and within Germany between 1939 to 1945 this was very obvious. Even when the people’s rights were taken away from them there was hardly any opposition.
Hitler’s prime control method was fear. So many of his tools mirrored this like the S.S. but possibly there was even more fear of the Gestapo. The Gestapo was Hitler’s eyes and ears but what’s even more surprising then that is the few people who were involved in it considering the hype. Overall the amount of people in the Gestapo was around 10,000 but the German people thought it was more around the S.S. size of 3 million. The reason it was seen as so big was because the German people were encouraged to tell the Gestapo about what other people were doing. It was in Germany that the saying `the walls have ears` was first made up. The Gestapo were meant to find all the opposition to Hitler and pass their information onto the S.S. . To get the information that they wanted the Gestapo would often torture the suspected criminal or the friends and Relatives. The Gestapo were one of Hitler’s most powerful weapons and definitely his most secretive (since none of the lower ranks wore uniform no one new who was and wasn’t a member).
