Fear and repression in the police state

People who criticised the Nazis could be arrested without trial.
Fear of punishment discouraged open opposition.
Run by the SS, concentration camps imprisoned and forced opponents of the Nazi state into brutal labor, often working prisoners to death or killing them via starvation, disease, or execution.
The Gestapo were the secret police who monitored loyalty, arresting and torturing those suspected of disloyalty, often in secret night raids.
Within the legal system, judges had to be Nazi Party members who enforced Nazi ideology in courts • Neighbourhood blocks had Nazi informers, and Hitler Youth children were encouraged to spy on family and neighbours, creating a climate of fear that discouraged resistance and divided communities

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