How can we account for the culture of informers in which ordinary citizens denounced their neighbors to the Gestapo?

Above all, I will expect you to support your conclusions with specific historical evidence! You are free to make use of the Bendersky and Fest texts as well as the Elie Wiesel memoir. How popular was the Nazi regime? Historians now generally agree that the Third Reich was a political regime based on the “consent” of ordinary Germans. Were ordinary Germans passive objects/victims of a police state? How can we account for the culture of informers in which ordinary citizens denounced their neighbors to the Gestapo?

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