20 saw all bar one conspiricers shot. This made Nazi followers outraged and gained Hitler sympathy. Under Hitler, it was basically conform or die. Some Jews fled Germany. But most, with a kind of stubborn belief in God and Fatherland, sought to weather the Nazi terror. It was forlorn hope. In 1939, after Hitler's conquest of Poland, the Nazis cast aside all restraint. Jews in their millions were now herded into concentration camps, there to starve and perish as slave laborers. Other millions were driven into dismal ghettos, which served as holding pens until the Nazis got around to disposing of them. The mass killings began in 1941, with the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Nazi murder squads followed behind the Wehrmacht enthusiastically slaying Jews and other conquered . It is likely the only way Hitler held control was through terror and propaganda. Germany's desperate situation made the people prepared to accept Gobbles' propaganda campaign. Basically, if you were not a Jew or interested in politics, you could live quite happily under the Nazis as Hitler took great care to please the people. Success and lack of obstruction appealed for Hitler to take bigger risks and with so much triumph in the economy, Germans too saw him as infallible. Germany became a totalitarian nation where no one could oppose or criticise Hitler. Those arrested had to swear an oath of obedience. People who did not fit or like the policies were severely harassed. For example, if any German was caught helping a Jew he was executed, political parties were banned so the Nazis had no opposition and trade unions abolished as they were seen as a way for the people to resist. It is bewildering to think how Hitler's barbaric attitudes has so much influence on the people and such sadistic atrocities were allowed to occur in such a civilised nation. Quite simply, the Nazi rule was a cult. It is difficult to comprehend that people thought this madman was superhuma...
