What popular support was there for Nazi anti-Semitism and extermination?
Obviously the entire German population did not support Hitler and his policy of persecution of the Jews. But the fact is there is no known example of a wide protest against the way the Jews were treated. However one must take account of the terror of the Nazi regime which threatened anyone who openly criticized their policy. There were Germans who refused the boycott that had been organized on April 1, 1933 and continued shopping in Jewish stores. Others, few in number, helped the Jews hide or escape arrest. Some, who were opposed to Hitler and the Nazis, had no objection to the persecution of the Jews. The clergy protested against the fate of the Jews but in no way comparable to the sermon pronounced by the Bishop of Mnster, C.A. von Galen, who was indignant at the treatment of criminals and the disabled under program T4. The provost of the cathedral of Berlin, Bernhard Lichtenberg, did pray in public every day for the Jews. He was sent to a concentration camp. Other men of the church
