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Although there was almost no armed resistance to Hitler after he took power in 1933, it is difficult to determine the extent of the German Public support for Hitler. In the Reichstag elections of 31 July 1932, the Nazi Party got 37.8% of the votes. After Hitler took power and elections were held in March 1933, the Nazi Party intimidated (terrorized & killed) the other political parties but the Nazis only got 43.9% of the vote. Germans certainly agreed with Hitler on many of his goals, however there were many programs that the Germans would not have supported if they had known all the details.

Different programs or goals had different levels of support, illustrated as follows:

Anti-Communism measures: strong support

Industrial & Economic growth programs: strong support

Rebuilding Germany's military 1933-1938: strong support

Killings of the mentally ill, very ill & elderly in German hospitals before the war: little support

Annexation of Austria: strong support

Hitler Youth programs: strong support

Annexation of Czechoslovakia: moderate support

Anti-Jewish measures: moderate support

Death Camps for Jews: probably little support

War with Poland: strong support

War with France & Belgium: strong support

War with Norway & Denmark: little support

War with Netherlands: little support

War with Britain: moderate support

War with Serbian-Yugoslavia & Greece: moderate support

Alliance with Italy: moderate support

Alliance with Japan: little support

1939 Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin: little support

War with Soviet Union (communism-Stalin): strong support

Mass murder of the Polish & Slavic populations of Eastern Europe: little support

War with the United States: little support

Murder of POWs: little support

Persecution of German Church leaders that opposed Hitler: almost no support

Defending the German homeland from invasion & attacks: strong support

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