Corbett-Totalitarianism

Hitler kept control of his regime through totalitarianism and manipulating the people. Hitler came in to power without any totalitarian methods but once he gained power he began implementing laws that would allow for him to gain complete power. Obviously, in order to maintain that power he had to get rid of opposition or make it illegal and he did this with the Nuremberg laws, which stripped Jews of their citizenship. And if you're not a citizen, you can't vote. This was one of the relatively fair ways that he imposed his totalitarian rule. With events like The Night of Broken Glass, he was able to instill fear into people. If he could send out his storm troopers and kill people and destroy businesses without anyone in the country speaking out there is no way to fight it or oppose it. After all, it wasn't Hitler that the opposition had to fear but their fellow citizens and neighbors. It was the citizens and their denunciations that opposition had to worry about. But, then when the entire nation is going along with what's happening and they're all supporting Hitler, who in their right mind would speak out and say that what was happening was wrong. When your neighbors can send a letter and have you put in a concentration camp or killed, there is not a chance that a single person will speak out. Even if there was a small group that had the courage to form an opposition group, Hitler could have the members exterminated within hours of his gaining knowledge of their existence. It only took one night for thousands of Jews to be killed, it would take even less time especially if these people were being out right in their opposition.
Even though Hitler was doing all of these horrible things and had his secret police force quietly ousting opposition, the German people would not oppose any of this. We know for the reason of fear but also, Hitler came in and restored Germany to its former glory. The country was no longer in a state of economic crisis, they were becoming powerful again, and unemployment was practically non-existent. He had turned things around and restored the German people's pride. He was even ignoring the treaty of Versailles and beginning re-armament. They couldn't try to get rid of this man when he has just made so many positive changes for their country. The people were not blind to the injustices but they were not only powerless to Hitler's totalitarian ways but afraid of him and whether or not their country could fall back into despair.