Opposition, Control & Consent Flashcards
(46 cards)
Active Resistance
Acts that were intended to overthrow the regime
Protest
Acts intended to alter specific aspects of Nazi policy
Non-conformity
Acts that could have any motivation, or no clear motivation at all e.g. listening to Jazz
3 unsuccessful assassination plots
1935
1938
1939
Illegal strikes 1933-35
400
Catholic Protests regarding schooling
1935
Crucifix restored to classrooms
Non-Conformist groups
Swing youth - based on popularity of jazz music
Roving dudes - rejected militarism of young people
Hossbach conference
Nov 1937
Hitler outlined his plans for Lebensraum - Blomberg and Fritsch forced to resign as they opposed it as Germany not ready for war w/ Allies
Hitler invades Sudentenland and Czechoslovakia
1938
Stauffenberg bomb plot
Colonel Von Stauffenberg planted bomb in meeting w/ Hitler
Failed
VS executed
Battle of Stalingrad
23th Aug 1942 to 2nd Feb 1943
marked beginning of the end
KPD initial repression
SA & SS broke up KPD meetings and started violence with them after 22nd Feb as they became auxiliary police officers
SPD initial repression
Police protection of SPD meetings withdrawn in early Feb
Supporters of left wing parties detained 1933
150,000-200,000
KPD arrests by mid-March 1933
10,000
KPD arrests mid-March to April 1933
8,000
First concentration camp set up
Dachau in late March 1933
Number of prisoners released from Dachau
1/3 of prisoners
Official amnesty
Aug 1934
% of Gestapo action against Jew-Aryan relationships tipped off by public
64%
Only 15% from work of gov agents
% of gestapo work generated from Nazi surveillance
10% from Nazi surveillance
90% came from public denunciations
Shows high level of collaboration from citizens
Proportion of gov owned newspapers increase 1933-45
2.5% to 82%
Editor’s Law
Oct 1933
Made editors responsible for content of their magazines
Drop in newspaper sales 1933-39
10%
