Political resistance Flashcards
What fuelled peoples compliance of the Nazi regime as well as widespread acceptance of it
Propaganda and the order of Nazism was better than the chaos of Weimar
How did the SPD resist
Lawful resistance e.g. strikes
Voted against Enabling Act
Supportive cells in factories (opposition in the workplace from those in labour unions)
Berlin Red Patrol (an organisation)
How did the KPD resist
Underground in industrial areas
Unions in Berlin and Hamburg in recruitment and newspapers
Secret factory cells
What did both the KPD and SPD resist
Propaganda and smuggling
Why did Hitler worry regarding political resistance
As the SPD and KPD posed a threat to order due to strikes
What was the reality of the lefts situation
Left was too divided to pose a serious threat
What happened to most SPD members by the end of 1933
Thousands murdered or in ‘preventive custody’
Where were many of the SPD advocates
In foreign land such as Prague so the acts that they were doing were not illegal
When was Thalmann arrested from the KPD
Early 1933
How much of the KPD leadership had been killed in 1933
10%
What happened to the KPD cells
Gestapo broke them up
