“Is it the influence of the tremendous propaganda — films, broadcasting, newspapers, flags, ever more celebrations (today is the Day of the Nation, Adolf the Leader’s birthday)? Or is it the trembling, slavish fear all around? I almost believe now that I shall not see the end of this tyranny. And I am almost used to the condition of being without rights. I simply am not German and Aryan, but a Jew and must be grateful if I’m allowed to stay alive. — They are expert at advertising. The day before yesterday we saw (and heard) on film how Hitler holds his big rallies. The mass of SA men in front of him, the half-dozen microphones in front of his lectern, which transmit his words to 600,000 SA men in the whole Third Reich — one sees his omnipotence and keeps one’s head down. And always the Horst Wessel song. And everyone knuckles under. … How wretched the Doctors’ Congress in Wiesbaden. Gratitude to Hitler — even if the racial question has not yet been clarified, even if the ‘aliens’ Wassermann, Ehrlich, Neisser have made important contributions to our medicine — we thank Hitler, he is saving Germany!”
–April 20, 1933
Amazing — 600,000 outlaws were able to control a population of over 20,000,000 through intimidation and propaganda.