Why din't the Germans try to stop the nazis?

Answer 1

because they were for it. well when WWI ended germany was forced to admit they started war when Austria-Hungury started, and had to pay $33billion to allieds when they only had $15billion.
so they were pissed, and when nazi came in power their drppression got better, and hitler trusted german that they will get good economy, so they whent for revenge and for better life/...

Answer 2

Some did, but that were few, and about the majority who didn't, there were three reasons:

1) Many were themselves convinced Nazis or just didn't care. Hitler came to power by an election. You can see the pictures of the big crowds that cheered to him. Many Germans were antisemites and what was done to the Jews didn't bother them, and it also didn't bother them what was done to others they considered "inferior". I hate to say it, but from all I know about my grandparents they had a nice life under the Nazi rule and didn't feel it as a problem, because they were safe and they didn't bother about those who weren't. When World War II started and Germany was so successful at the beginning many people considered that great. Nazi ideology was a "sweet poison", it told people they were a "master race" and would rule the world soon - this was seductive for many people.

2) At that time blind obediance to authorities was considered a moral value in Germany. Even many of the resistance fighters were in a real moral conflict because they felt it was immoral to oppose the authority, and many believed in that Bible passage that says that every authority were from God (Romans 13). When Eichmann was on trial in Israel, he really said that he would have been a bad person if he had not obeyed his orders, and that he considered himself innocent because he had "only obeyed orders." I heard it in a documentary film, his voice was impatient and it seems he couldn't understand why the Jews couldn't understand this. He was an extreme case, but an exemplary one.

3) Fear, everyone knew about the concentration camps.

Answer 3

In fact - many did. The first and foremost opponent of the National Socialist Party was the Communist Party (KPD), something the other people who answered this question have never taken the time to learn about. Even before Hitler was elected, the National Socialists and the Communists (led by Ernst Thalmann) had bloody battles in the streets. When the Nazis were in power, there was also a group called 'The White Rose' who resisted Hitler - once again few people here know anything about this either.

Answer 4

By the time most Germans realized the problems that the Nazis were capable of causing, the Nazis were far too powerful for the average citizen to stop. A lot of freedoms that might have made it possible were suspended by Hitler and his cronies, and that made it even less likely. While it doesn't excuse the behavior, it at least provides a reason for it, and Germany now seems to be one of the more cautious countries in Europe when it comes to protecting freedoms, not to mention that Nazism and related material is illegal there.

Despite the power of Hitler's followers, there were those who resisted; even in the worst of times, there ARE good and honorable people in any group.

Answer 5

Some did--check out the White Rose Society, for instance.

You've got to remember that the Nazis didn't take over Germany all at once. Their hold over Germany was gradual--and first they won elections that allowed Hitler to become Chancellor. They relied on their propaganda machine to tell lies that fit in with the prejudices felt by many Germans--that they weren't responsible for the horrible conditions after WWI, it was the Jews, for example--that Germans were The Master Race. Then the Nazis did things like burn down the Reichstag, blaming it on the Jews. Besides offering scapegoats, they staged massive rallies which mesmerized many, offered incentives for working class men to have large families, and gave comforting notions about how things "ought to be"--women in their place, weaker nations bowing down to Germany, etc.

Answer 6

The German people were influenced by all of the rhetoric. That and the fact that anyone who objected was visited by the 'brown shirts', and beaten to a pulp for being 'jew lovers'.

What's frightening is that much the same thing is happening again in the United States today.

Answer 7

Ideologically, the Nazis endorsed the concept of "Großdeutschland", or Greater Germany, and believed that the incorporation of the Germanic people into one nation was a vital step towards their national success. While the Nazis proposed the creation of an all-encompassing German ethnic State, others, particularly non-Germans, were in strong opposition to the idea, believing that a very large and powerful Germany would be to the disadvantage of the rest of Europe. Similarly, the "German problem", as it is often referred to in English scholarship, focuses on the issue of administration of Germanic regions within Northern and Central Europe, an important theme throughout German history.[3] The "logic" of keeping Germany small worked in the favor of its principal economic rivals, and had been a driving force in the recreation of a Polish state. The goal was to create numerous counterweights in order to "balance out Germany's power." Regardless of one's position on these matters, it was the love affair with the Volk concept that led to Germany's expansion, culminating in World War II. Two important issues were administration of the Polish corridor and Danzig's incorporation into the Reich. As a further extension of racial policy, the Lebensraum program, adapted in the midst of the war, pertained to similar interests; it was decided that Eastern Europe would be settled with ethnic Germans, and the Slavic population who met the Nazi racial standard would be absorbed into the Reich. Those not fitting the racial standards were to be used as cheap labour force or deported eastward.[4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany

Answer 8

"This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future." Adolf Hitler, 1935.

Now, do you still wonder why the Germans didn't stop the Nazi? They had been disarmed. Do you still wonder why good Americans refuse to submit to national gun registration and other attacks on the 2nd Amendment? Guns, especially in the hands of the general population, gave you your freedoms, and will keep them for you.

Only a despot fears an armed citizenry.

Answer 9

This is a complex question but basically Germany, like Russia, even Poland for that matter, had no history of democratic rule. So, it was easy for a dictator like Hitler to rise to power in that country without the people really being aware that they were supporting a murderous tyrant. The Russians, likewise, offered no serious resistence to Stalin either but endured his vicious, tyrannical rule in silence for twenty-five years.

Answer 10

They were enthralled by the message initially...nationalism and over-throwing the shackles of the Versailles Treaty were pretty heady stuff, especially for a people suffering the depression of the late 20s and early 30s. By the time the national socialist were in control in the late 30s, the die was cast and it was too late to question or defy the police-state....it meant a one-way ticket to Dachau..

Answer 11

Adolf Hitler ran for chancellor, equivalent to President, and won the election, fair and square. The Germans didn't try to stop the Nazi's because they didn't want to stop the Nazi's.