I am wondering if people who initially opposed to the nazis on ideological grounds, changed their opinions as Hitler apparently sorted out the economic woes of the country and supported the cause of German nationalism as the drums of war approached in 1938-39. When it came to nationalism -were some people willing and wanting to defend Germany at any cost, despite not liking what the nazis stood for and were doing overall, because their pride in being German and more important not wanting the country to be invaded etc Did any communists or socialists or those to the left, who weren't killed or imprisoned in the early days, eventually complete service in the Wehrmacht or actually make their way into the Ss... As unlikely as that sounds am curious.
Did some people, out of fear of being found out, attempt to look like good nazis despite having been ideologically opposed in the early 30s, and became willing take part in the worst excesses of the nazis?
Lastly were their cases of children of parents who were vocally opposed to the Nazis, at least in the home sphere, who through Hitler Youth and the education system went on to become passionate Nazis, happy to do anything for the Fuhrer?
Anecdotally, I can give an example from my own family. My distant cousin, Irving Fuhrman was a progressive Austrian engineer who definitely had no interest in nazism. In order to thrive in Nazi Austria (and to conceal his Jewish wife's ethnicity) he joined the nazi party and became the chief engineer on a massive nazi hydroelectric project in Zell Am Zee, Austria called the Kaprun Dam which used thousands of slave laborers to power the third reich. Irving went along to get along and his cooperation with the Nazis led many of his American relatives to speak ill of him after the war.