Chapter 24- opposition and resistance in War time Flashcards
“Wild cliques”
A youth group that was criminalistic and disobedient by nature
Edelweiss pirates
mostly working class 14-18 year olds
Active in Rhineland and Ruhr area (around Cologne)
Anti- Hitler Youth and tried to avoid conscription
Trips in nature and sang songs banned by Hitler
1944- Helped army deserter and soviet POWs
Leaders of the group hanged publicly in nov 1944
Swing Youth
Middle class youth rebellion
motivated by desire to “have a good time”
Listened to American Jazz and wore English clothes
Located in:
Kiel
Hamburg
Berlin
Karlsruhe and other places
Himmler sent the leader to a KZ for 3 years
White Rose group
based in Munich
very Political
Led by Hans and Sophie Scholl
Attacked Nazi treatment of Jews and Slavs
Executed by gestapo
What did Catholics say to Invasion of USSR
fully supported it
Bishop Galen
spoke out against Hitler’s 1940 euthanasia programme that killed 270000 people
led to a temporary halting of the programme
Archbishop Frings
condemned killing POWs
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
banned from speaking in public
criticised nazi treatment of jews
killed in prison in 1945
Significance of the Protestant confessional church of Prussia
only Christian body to criticise the nazis
Why did communists resist the nazis in June 1941
the USSR encouraged it after nazis invaded
KPD cells in German cities
89 in Berlin
Many others in Hamburg and Mannheim
How many KPD cells in Berlin did the Gestapo destroy by 1943
22
Kreisau circle
common goal: getting rid of a hitler
elites who opposed Nazism
“intellectual powerhouse of on-communist opposition”
When was it confirmed Hitler wasn’t fit to lead
after the loss at Stalingrad
Assassination attempt March 1943
Bomb on Hitler’s plane
it didnt explode and no one knew
Stauffenburg’s assassination attempt
1944, put a bomb in Hitler’s headquarters in East Prussia
Hitler survived
operation Valkyrie
plan to take over Berlin after Hitler was assassinated
Bomb didnt kill him
Hitler hopped on a radio broadcast to prove he was alive
SS arrested 7000 people and executed 5746
