Opposition, resistance and conformity Flashcards
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How did the Nazis prevent opposition and create submissiveness?
Attacking minorities, so mainly people could ignore it.
Take down the hated treaty of Versailles
Made Germany prosperous and stable
Propaganda
How many Protestant pastors were sent to concentration camps? How many Catholic priests?
800 protestant pastors (lead by niemoller)
400 catholic pastors and sent to Dachau
What is an example of Church success against Nazism?
Catholic cardinal, von Galen managed to make Hitler stop euthanasia of the mentally disabled in 1941
What was pastor Bonhoffer involved in?
Attempted assassination of Hitler
What two youth groups were involved in opposing Hitler?
Edelweiss pirates and Swing youth
Who were the Edelweiss pirates?
group of youths in Rhineland
- showed resistance by attacking Hitler Youth
- wrote anti nazi slogans in graffiti and sang popular songs before the nazi regime
- wore american style clothers
How many edelweiss pirates were there by 1939?
2000
Who were the Swing Youth
A group influenced by america who embraced the degenerate culture of Weimar and rejected Nazi ideas.
What did the Swing Youth do ?
Played jazz, smoked, drank alchohol, organised illegal dance parties attended by thousands of young people
What is the difference in class between Swing youth and Edelweiss pirates?
Swing youth was upper class Edellweis pirates were working class
What did the Edelweiss pirates do during WW2
Spread Allied propaganda, protected army deserters and openly attacked Hitler Youth
How many and how were the Edelweiss pirates punished for their crimes?
1942- 700 members arrested
1944- 12 publicly hanged at Cologne to send a message
What did the Swing Youth do over WW2
Gained members
Why were citizens scared to oppose Hitlers rule?
They were quickly divided so could not communicate
Members of political opposition were arrested and intimidated, sometimes sent to concentration camps
people resisted passively by telling anti nazi jokes or listening to anti nazi music
What was the White Rose?
2 anti Nazi students from Munich university who published anti-nazi posters exposing what the nazis were doing
What happened to the 2 leaders of the white rose?
Executed in 1943 after a strike against the Nazis
What was the July plot and when was it? Did it succeed?
1944
Count Stauffenberg of the army tried killing Hitler by placing a bomb in his briefcase
It did not succeed, only injured Hitler
What did the Nazis do in retaliation to the July plot?
Stauffenberg and 5746 others were executed (including generals and colonels)
What was the Rosenstrasse?
How was the Rosenstrasse protest an example of a successful protest?
Aryan women whose Jewish husbands were arrested protested for them to be released.
To minimise the attention the protests recieved, the men were released after a few days
