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wouldnt it have been impossible for all of them to be locked up immediately? the amount of people they locked up/killed was phenomenal for how fast they did it.. how many years did it last for?
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They weren't all locked up at the same time. As I said, before the election they arrested quite a lot of their opposition. After that they gradually tried to put everyone who didn't fit in their world view in their newly built concentration camps.
As sarah2 said, some people were denouncing their own neighbors, but in addition to that the Nazis had a very well working secret service.... you can imagine.
There are ways to find out whether you're communist or gay... and Jews had to wear that yellow star in public anyway, so they were recognizable.
The first concentration camp (Dachau) was built in 1933/34 and it was there until the allied forces came in 1945.
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i guess its just.. if you were in the position that so many were when hitler ruled, what would you have done? it would have taken a lot of guts to stand up to anyone who had that much power and was so sadistic.. which i think is why he had so many supporters. they would have been afraid of him.
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Yes.
You couldn't say anything about the regime in public during that time, or you would have been severely punished. Look up what happened to Sophie Scholl and her friends.
A lot of Hitler's support in the later years (after 1935) is either based on fear, or on brainwashing. They systematically educated children to be good little Nazis and later soldiers.
The dangerous people were actually those who believed in all that propaganda because of their own, free will.