Opposition, resistance and conformity

Question 1

How did the Nazis prevent opposition and create submissiveness?

Answer 1

Attacking minorities, so mainly people could ignore it.
Take down the hated treaty of Versailles
Made Germany prosperous and stable
Propaganda

Question 2

How many Protestant pastors were sent to concentration camps? How many Catholic priests?

Answer 2

800 protestant pastors (lead by niemoller)

400 catholic pastors and sent to Dachau

Question 3

What is an example of Church success against Nazism?

Answer 3

Catholic cardinal, von Galen managed to make Hitler stop euthanasia of the mentally disabled in 1941

Question 4

What was pastor Bonhoffer involved in?

Answer 4

Attempted assassination of Hitler

Question 5

What two youth groups were involved in opposing Hitler?

Answer 5

Edelweiss pirates and Swing youth

Question 6

Who were the Edelweiss pirates?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

How many edelweiss pirates were there by 1939?

Answer 7

2000

Question 8

Who were the Swing Youth

Answer 8

A group influenced by america who embraced the degenerate culture of Weimar and rejected Nazi ideas.

Question 9

What did the Swing Youth do ?

Answer 9

Played jazz, smoked, drank alchohol, organised illegal dance parties attended by thousands of young people

Question 10

What is the difference in class between Swing youth and Edelweiss pirates?

Answer 10

Swing youth was upper class
Edellweis pirates were working class

Question 11

What did the Edelweiss pirates do during WW2

Answer 11

Spread Allied propaganda, protected army deserters and openly attacked Hitler Youth

Question 12

How many and how were the Edelweiss pirates punished for their crimes?

Answer 12

1942- 700 members arrested

1944- 12 publicly hanged at Cologne to send a message

Question 13

What did the Swing Youth do over WW2

Answer 13

Gained members

Question 14

Why were citizens scared to oppose Hitlers rule?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What was the White Rose?

Answer 15

2 anti Nazi students from Munich university who published anti-nazi posters exposing what the nazis were doing

Question 16

What happened to the 2 leaders of the white rose?

Answer 16

Executed in 1943 after a strike against the Nazis

Question 17

What was the July plot and when was it? Did it succeed?

Answer 17

1944
Count Stauffenberg of the army tried killing Hitler by placing a bomb in his briefcase
It did not succeed, only injured Hitler

Question 18

What did the Nazis do in retaliation to the July plot?

Answer 18

Stauffenberg and 5746 others were executed (including generals and colonels)

Question 19

What was the Rosenstrasse?

How was the Rosenstrasse protest an example of a successful protest?

Answer 19

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