Oppositon To The Nazis

Question 1

White Rose Group

Answer 1

Based in Munich led by Hand and Sophie Scholl in uni of Munich.

1942-3 distributed 6 leaflets. Painted Anti-Nazi slogans on buildings

Caught and executed by Gestapo

Question 2

Black Music 👀

Answer 2

Swing Youth for the middle class youth to have fun. Played Jazz music which was black and so in opposition toNazi ideals

Himmler wanted to send leaders to camps

Question 3

RCC to Nazis

Answer 3

Concordat of 1933

Only individuals spoke in opposition

Bishop Galen in 1940 spoke out against the euthanasia of 270,000 disabled

3 priests executed for spreading this message

Question 4

Confessing church?

Answer 4

Resistance against reich Church as they wanted to remain independent, rejected the Aryan paragraph and defend Lutheran theology

Over 700 pastors arrested

Question 5

Communists

Answer 5

1939 Nazi-Soviet pact undermined KPD resistente

1942-3 Gestapo infiltrated cells and by the end of this period 22 had been destroyed

Question 6

First plot

Answer 6

1938 plot tried to get Hitler arrested led by General Beck, Karl Goerdeler and Ulrich von Hassell

Question 7

Assassination attempts

Answer 7

March 1943 bomb on Hitler’s plane didn’t go off but wasn’t discovered

1944 bomb in Hitler’s headquarters placed by Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg but ended in only minor injuries to Hitler