In response to the laws and policies implemented during Hitler’s rule, various countries and individuals chose either to act or not to act.These people may have been driven to act as they did for a number of reasons; whether out of fear or out of blind obedience, as is often the case, with many Nazi Party officials claiming to have simply been “following orders. Those who became resisters generally acted upon their beliefs and chose to go against the views of the Nazi Party, encouraging others to do so as well and rebelling against the laws and policies that the government.