on by the Nazi regime. Indeed, in neither France nor Poland both of which had rawer traditions of popular antisemitism than did pre Nazi Germany did the German occupation authorities make any broad effort to use antisemitism as a rallying factor to reconcile public opinion to Nazi rule.
What applies to the Jews applies in greater or lesser degree to millions of other victims of Nazi state terror. Anti state terrorism is often both pretext and motivation for the application of state terror, yet anti state terrorism in Germany was minimal within Germany itself throughout the Nazi era. The one major original locus of anti state terror directed against Nazi rule, even in the occupied countries, was the Communists, yet Nazi state terror tended to extend far beyond Communists and their sympathizers. In the Ukraine and other Soviet ruled areas, indeed, much potential pro German (or at least anti Soviet) sympathy was eliminated by the broad application of Nazi state terror.
The Nazi Party originally grew up in an atmosphere of ant
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