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Originally Posted by RGTraynor
Not a half hour ago, I was reading the section where Shirer describes Hitler's systematic suppression of the powerful and ubiquitous trade union movement, which had brought down the monarchy only 15 years earlier, and Shirer's amazement that they took it so meekly.
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You should look at that more closely. Note that not only did Nazism fail to become a global regime, it didn't even unify those central European territories during the years it occupied them. Never mind the resistances, they all had "puppet" regimes with some differences in laws from Germany and a non-negligible tendency to disagree with the German occupation forces, if admittedly a limited one, even on the pro-Nazi side of things.
It takes a century or two for brutal control to stamp out local particularlism and separatist tendencies too. No matter how you do it, you need a couple generations.