Question

In what ways was Nazi control affected by opposition in Germany​

Answer 1

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The 'Night of the Long Knives' had eliminated almost all opposition to Hitler within the Nazi Party.

All other political parties had been banned in July 1933.

Through censorship and propaganda, the Nazis eliminated opposition in the media.

Economic opposition was eliminated as trade unions had been banned in May 1933.

Germans lived in fear of being denounced by spies, interrogated by the Gestapo and sent to concentration camps.

Many Germans genuinely believed that the Nazis were improving Germany. They saw the negative side as a ‘necessary evil’ if Germany was to be great again.

Answer 2

Answer:

German resistance to Nazism (German: Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus) was the opposition by individuals and groups in Germany to the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. Some of these engaged in active resistance, including attempts to remove Adolf Hitler from power by assassination and overthrow his regime.

German resistance didn't take the form of a united resistance movement at any time during the Nazi period, unlike the much more coordinated Italian Resistance, Soviet partisans, Polish Underground State, Greek Resistance, Yugoslav Partisans, French Resistance, Dutch resistance, and Norwegian resistance movement. The German resistance consisted of small and usually isolated groups. They were unable to mobilize large-scale political opposition. With the exception of individual attacks on Nazis (including Hitler), acts of sabotage or the successful disclosure of information about Nazi armaments factories to the Allies, as by the Austrian resistance group led by Heinrich Maier. One strategy was to persuade leaders of the Wehrmacht to stage a coup against the regime; the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler was intended to trigger such a coup.

Approximately 77,000 German citizens were executed for one or another form of resistance by Special Courts, courts-martial, People's Courts and the civil justice system. Many of these Germans had served in government, the military, or in civil positions, which enabled them to engage in subversion and conspiracy; in addition, the Canadian historian Peter Hoffman counts unspecified "tens of thousands" in Nazi concentration camps who were either suspected of or actually engaged in opposition.By contrast, the German historian Hans Mommsen wrote that resistance in Germany was "resistance without the people" and that the number of those Germans engaged in resistance to the Nazi regime was very small.The resistance in Germany included German citizens of non-German ethnicity, such as members of the Polish minority who formed resistance groups like Olimp.

By August 1934, Hitler was a dictator in Germany.

In order to maintain his absolute power he needed to ensure the total loyalty of the people to him. He used a wide variety of methods to achieve this.

The Police State

Hitler and the Nazis created a Police State to exercise control over the population. There were three main parts to it:

Internal security forces

After the elimination of the SA in the Night of the Long Knives in June 1934, Hitler used three main organisations (in addition to the regular German police force) to control the German people through spying, intimidation and imprisonment.