To What Extent Did Opposition And Resistance Develop During The War? Flashcards
What was used to counter Hitler’s concern of the demoralising impact of war?
Propaganda
When did propaganda become more difficult to spread in Nazi Germany during WW2?
After the failure of the invasion of the USSR
When did Nazi opposition in WW2 in Germany become a serious threat with what event?
In July 1944, with the Bomb Plot also known as ‘Operation Valkyrie’
Why did the Nazi youth lose leaders during WW2 leading to lost support?
Many of the leaders went to fight
What were the alternatives to Nazi Youth that was dangerous opposition to the Nazi regime?
Swing Youth or the Edelweiss Pirates
Why was the Swing movement never going to topple the Nazi regime?
its main aim was simply to listen to ‘swing’ music in the ‘swing clubs’
What was the Edelweiss Pirates?
A youth group, that was opposition to the Nazi Youth, that was an umbrella movement and contained members from other groups such as ‘Roving Dudes’ and the ‘Navajos’
What was the impact on the Nazi Regime from the Edelweiss Pirates?
Their impact was minimal and when they did kill the head of the Cologne Gestapo they were soon caught and killed
Which group in Munich, printed leaflets encouraging people not to help the war effort and attacked Nazi polices towards Jewish people?
The ‘White Rose’
What was the view of Dietrich Bonhoeffer?
He did not believe Christianity could accept Nazi racial polices, one of the few from the Church to oppose the Nazis, and this resulted in him being involved in the plot to assassinate Hitler, but in October 1942 he was arrested and put in solitary confinement in prison and eventually hung
What encouraged opposition to the Nazis within the army to grow and led to the ‘Kreisau Circle’ being formed?
The military failings of the winter of 1942/1943
What was the goals of the conservatives and ‘Kreisau Circle’ who opposed the Nazis?
To form a government that might have been acceptable to the Western Allies, but keep fighting the communists in the west, and ridding themselves of a populist dictatorship and resorting democracy
Who was involved in the July Bomb plot in 1944?
General Ludwig Beck, Colonel von Stauffenberg and, conservative politician, Dr Carl Goerdeler
After the July Bomb plot how many were arrested and executed?
7000 Nazi opponents arrested and 5000 were killed
