“Oh yes they did. Goebbels made a stemwinding speech in 1943 where he bought a crowd of thousands to their feet screaming for total war.”
Ten years before, March 1933, Hitler ended democracy in Germany and passed a decree “allowing for the arrest of anyone suspected of maliciously criticizing the government and the Nazi Party.”
By 1943 the Nazi party had been jailing it’s critics and opponents for years.
The reaction of a crowd to a public speech by Goebbels in 1943 had all the authenticity of any crowd in a one party state ruled by what historian Paul Johnson calls a gangster regime. Some will be true believers and others will know it’s in their best interest to be enthusiastic. North Korea is a current example.
German patriots had been plotting to get rid of Hitler as early as 1938. And Rommel would be one that paid with his own life just one year after Goebbels’ speech.