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Who did not support Hitler?

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Initially, Adolf Hitler was supported by the National Worker's Socialist Party (Nazis). When he became Chancellor he was the leader of the Nazis. After President Hindenburg died, he became the President of Germany but wanted to be called the Fuhrer, which means leader. He was supported by the Nazis and the German populous then. Financially, he got his funding by "begging, borrowing and stealing" from the Jews and the banks (mostly owned by the Jews).

In the war time he was backed by the Italian Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini and the Japanese military leaders. They did their own trading back and forth with things they needed. Emotionally, he was supported by Mussolini and his mistress Eva Braun. He married her two days before they took their lives.

Militarily he was supported by his henchmen, Speer, Himmler, Goering, Goebels, Jodel and many others.

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Unfortunately, Hitler was able to win over most of the non-Jewish population of Germany. Obviously, the majority of Jews did not support him, although it should be noted that at first, some Jews were naive and did not realize the threat that he posed. They wanted to believe their country would not turn against them the way it soon did.

There was some resistance from small groups of dissidents: these were people who did not trust Hitler and recognized his policies for what they were-- genocidal and excessively nationalistic; but resisters were swiftly rounded up and sent to concentration camps, defusing their efforts to fight against him. Hitler also was able to take over the press, so reports of dissenters were downplayed or ignored. Because Hitler was a very charismatic leader, he was able to gain popular support and soon, Nazi philosophy permeated Germany's schools, churches, and popular culture.

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A lot of people didn't at first. In the 1932 General Election, Hitler's Nazi Party only got about 32% of the vote- meaning 68% of Germans didn't support him.

After Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, there was another election, and even though he used an emergency (the Reichstag, or Parliament, building was set on fire, leading people to believe Communists were trying to overthrow the government) to arrest and harass political opponents, his party still only got about 44% of the vote. However, he was able to convince two other parties to work with him, so combined they had 60% of the vote, and he was able to amend the constitution to make himself dictator.

Once in place as dictator, Hitler banned all other political parties (and some of these people, especially leftists like Communists and Socialists, were arrested/executed), and installed powerful police, security, and Propaganda agencies to ensure that nobody would oppose him. Additionally, his policies seemed to be helping fix the damage to the economy from the Great Depression, and seemed to restore patriotism after years of suffering from the loss of World War I. So there was a strong element of people being forced to support Hitler.

Even with all this, however, there were still small numbers of people who opposed Hitler. Clergy from various Christian denominations often opposed him, which led to many ministers and priests being arrested and sent to concentration camps. Sometimes college students, such as the White Rose group, would quietly protest Nazi policy- and they too were eliminated. Other people opposed Hitler, but mostly had to stay quiet for fear of being arrested or killed.

Once the war started, for varying reasons (such as disliking having to participate in the Holocaust, or to save Germany from losing the war), some military officials started plotting to remove Hitler from power. Although there were several assassination attempts on Hitler, probably the most famous example of this was the 20 July Plot, which was depicted in the movie Valkyriestarring Tom Cruise.

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Before the Nazis came to power (January 1933) the most determined opposition came from the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Communists (KPD). The leaders of these parties and the key trade unionists were sent to concentration camps from March 1933 onwards.

Organized opposition became practically impossible. The secret police (the Gestapo) and its network of informers were very efficient. Opponents of the regime faced at best imprisoment and more usually torture and death.

In the last 25 years or so it has emerged that there were more individual acts of defiance and resistance than was once thought, but their effects were limited.

There was some opposition from members of the churches, and of course, there was the attempted assassination of Hitler on 20 July 1944 by some army officers and others.

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Members of the NAZI Party, and, of course, Adolf Hitler.

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a lot of Germans supported Hitler, about 3 million people supported Hitler

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The Allied forces

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none hes awfol

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