At that time, entire family groups went over to the SA or the SS.
These people terrorized whole areas for many years, many opponents disappeared without a trace, ended up in the Emsland Camps, or these people were left to starve in the Wehnen sanatorium.
A more than horrible story, which has been worked up many times in books and films, a German history...
In some places you literally walk over corpses, even today, it's still very bad...
Micha
* I remember a sentence from my grandfather, who himself achieved a "career" under the Nazis:
"When shit becomes something, only shit comes out of it!"
Grandpa wasn't a stupid person, but the man howled with the wolves, for his own career, which one of us would have acted differently back then, you, me, I don't have an answer to that...