Opposition - the Traditional Elites, government and Civil Service

Question 1

What was the Kreisau circle?

Answer 1

-a group of officers

Question 2

When did the Kreisau circle come together? Why?

Answer 2

-1933
-to oppose Hitler

Question 3

What was the plan that the Kreisau circle drew up and when?

Answer 3

-1943
-plan for a new Germany called Basic Principles of a New Order

Question 4

What happened to the Kreisau circle after what, what did it lead to? When?

Answer 4

-July 1944
-mass round up of suspects after the July Bomb Plot
-suspects were tortured led to the Gestapo gaining the names of many plotters or supposed plotters including men in the Kreisau circle

Question 5

What did Von Papen plea in his speech in June 1945?

Answer 5

greater freedom

Question 6

What did Schacht speak out against in August 1935?

Answer 6

-against anti-Semitic behaviour

Question 7

Who did some government officials maintain contact with?

Answer 7

-opponents

Question 8

What happened to the leader of the SPD (Julius Leber)? Why?

Answer 8

-arrested in 1933 and sent to a concentration camp until 1937
-joined the Keisau circle but betrayed by a German spy->hung in 1945