In Germany at the beginning of the Nazi regime there were many political opponents who were mainly socialists, but the Nazis never faced serious threats of rebellion during the Nazism Germany and the Nazis reign. There are many different factors that caused this; one of these was the Nazi propaganda which was extensive and covered all of Germany; this propaganda was used successfully and made the majority of Germans believe what the party said, as it gave them a sense of national identity. They did this by focusing mainly on young Germans. Another factor that contributed to defending the party from the threats of rebellion was the fear and terror that the Nazis instilled in the people, through the use of the SS and the Gestapo. Another fundamental reason why there was no serious rebellion within the concentration camps was the disunity within the camps of many opponents who attempted to provoke the rebellion, although in the Jewish camps there was some opposition but none that represented a real threat but still feared Hitler. Even the division within the opposition did not pose a serious threat because the opposition did not work together as friends. Although these factors were at play, the Nazis still made many attempts at opposition rebellion in the early years. An example of the amount of opposition to the Nazis that existed at the beginning of the regime is shown by the last free elections in November 1932, during which the socialists obtained 13.1 million votes while the Nazis obtained only 11.7 million. Although this was before the regime began, the majority of these socialist voters would still have held strong socialist views. At the beginning of the regime the only form of resistance seen were the demonstrations organized by ... middle of paper ... you everywhere provoked by the Gestapo and the SS who mercilessly swept away any thought of rebellion, crushing the opposition and the leaders , killing or imprisoning them, and their supporters were isolated from the rest of the population by forcing them to support the Nazis even if they didn't want to, they had to. Works Cited Delarue, Jacques, The Gestapo: History of Horror (Skyhorse Publishing, London; 2008) Geary, Dick, Hitler and Nazism, (Routledge, London; 1993) J. Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich in Power (Penguin , London; 2006) Hall, Claire M. An army of spies? The Gestapo Spy Network 1933-45, Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 44, no. 2 (April 2009) Suhl, Yuri, They Fought Back (Macgibbon & Kee, London; 1967) Benz, Wolfgang, A Concise History of the Third Reich (University of California Press, California; 2007) Hildebrand, k. The Third Reich (George Allen, London, 1985)