Although many Germans approached the official news of the events as described by Joseph Goebbels with a great deal of scepticism, many others took the regime at its word, and believed that Hitler had saved Germany from a descent into chaos.
Selv om mange tyskere tog den officielle version af begivenhederne, som beskrevet af Joseph Goebbels med et gran salt, var der mange, som troede på regimets version og troede på, at Hitler havde reddet Tyskland fra kaos.