d incentives, food on the table when it was most required and Gestapo surveillance for the most part ensured the compliance of the working class in public." From M.Housden ‘Germans and their opposition to the Third Reich’The extent of opposition to the Nazis was ineffective due to Hitler’s mass popularity with the people, and the opposition groups being unable to co-operate with each other. Coupled with Hitler’s forceful and terrorising SS and Gestapo watching over the German people constantly. Hitler knew his aims, and a major priority was keeping opposition repressed. He succeeded for many years because of his banning other political parties and making opposition illegal. Therefore the little opposition that did remain was not supported and so did not threaten the Nazi State. ...
