"On balance, most people seemed prepared to live with the idea of a surveillance society, to put aside the opportunity to develop the freedoms we usually identify with liberal democracies, in return for crime-free streets, a return to prosperity, and what they regarded as a good government…In their successful cultivation of popular opinion, the Nazis did not need to use widespread terror against the population to establish the regime… Many Germans went along, not because they were mindless robots, but because they convinced themselves of Hitler’s advantages and of the ‘positive’ sides of the new dictatorship."
Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, by Robert Gellately, 2001, pg. 256-7
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