A Compliant Society?


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In the phase of “consolidated rule”, individuals or groups operating on their own attempted to break the Nazi state’s monopoly on information with smuggled flyers and illegally printed newspapers.


Anyone who disapproved of the regime for ideological and political or ethical and religious reasons across the board or in certain respects experienced not only persecution but also isolation from a society that was largely compliant or rendered compliant.


Resistance in the armed forces did not stir until around the turn of 1937-38. Some National Conservative officers, Hans Oster among them, recognized the perils of Hitler’s aggressive foreign policy. While a fraction wanted to arrest and kill Hitler, the others aimed to force the “Führer” to abandon his plans for war. The “Munich Agreement” of September 1938, in which Prague had to assent to the annexation of the Sudetenland, eliminated the premises for the planned putsch.


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