Exactly my point. Most of the non-Communist resistance against the Nazis sprang up when they started losing. Had they kept winning, I'm sure many of their opponents would have gone along with Hitler. Many were also aristocratic snobs. They would have gladly done everything Hitler ordered if he had been a Hohenzollern kaiser, with the exception of exterminating the Jews.
As for the common people, you are mostly right, although they too backed Hitler when he was a winner. If you are to believe the lying apologist pictures of the last 30 years, there were only maybe a few dozen Nazis in Germany, telling everyone else what to do.
Study after study has shown that if you give even a normally decent person power over others, especially those branded as "inferior," it can go to their head and lead to horrible abuses. The USA has had its share of demagogues too, like Huey Long for instance. He and Adolf would have gotten along fine.
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