NAZI OPPOSITION Flashcards
(29 cards)
YOUTH
PASSIVE RESISTANCE / TEEN REBELLION
Hitler youth
- membership declined after compulsory (1939)
YOUTH
PASSIVE RESISTANCE / TEEN REBELLION
Parental opposition
disapproved of indoctrination / military
YOUTH
ACTIVE OPPOSITION
3 Groups
- Edelweiss Pirates
- Swing youth
- White Rose Group
YOUTH
ACTIVE OPPOSITION
Edelweiss Pirates
Goals?
Reject nazi dressing and propaganda
YOUTH
ACTIVE OPPOSITION
Edelweiss Pirates
Class?
Working
YOUTH
ACTIVE OPPOSITION
Edelweiss Pirates
Outcome?
5 hung
YOUTH
ACTIVE OPPOSITION
Swing Youth
Goals?
Listen to American - jazz but not overly political
YOUTH
ACTIVE OPPOSITION
Swing Youth
Class?
Middle Class
YOUTH
ACTIVE OPPOSITION
White Rose Club
Leaders?
Hans and Sophie Scholl - uni students
YOUTH
ACTIVE OPPOSITION
White Rose Club
Outcome?
Executed. Serious threat
YOUTH
ACTIVE OPPOSITION
White Rose Club
Goals?
Spread anti - Nazi propaganda
Why was it hard to oppose Hitler? 3
- majority liked him
- depoliticised (no other parties)
- Terror state
LEFT OPP
HQ location
Prague
LEFT OPP
Success? yes
2
yes - spies and SOAPADE reports
minor amount of propaganda
LEFT OPP
Success? no
2
no - divided amongst themselves
10% leadership killed after Reich fire
LEFT OPP
% killed after fire
10
WORKERS
how many strikes in 1935
25,000
WORKERS
1935 strikes
how many punished
4000/25,000
WORKERS
ways to strike
2
absenteeism-not turning up to work
sabotage-breaking machinery
WORKERS
Conflict
didn’t directly oppose hitler- opposed working conditions
CHURCHES
Oppositional legue names
-Emergency Pastors League
emerged into
-Confessional Church
CHURCHES
why did the emergency pastors league / confessional church pose as a threat
large and global power and influence
CHURCHES
how many arrested
700
CHURCH
Encyclical
Encyclical - formal letter from pope
‘with burning grief’
apologised for collaging w Nazis
