Resistance and Opposition - N Flashcards
Who were The Swing Youth?
The Swing Youth declared their dislike of Nazi ideas and policies by listening to jazz music and having Jewish friends.
The Nazis rejected jazz music as degenerate, using their racial ideas against this cultural development.
Who were the Edelweiss Pirates?
The Edelweiss Pirates reacted to the discipline of Hitler Youth by singing pre-1933 folk songs.
They beat up Hitler Youth and helped deserters.
1942: Over 700 arrested.
1944: The Pirates in Cologne killed the Gestapo chief, so the Nazis publically hanged 12 of them.
Who were the White Rose group?
Students at Munich University in 1943, led by brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl.
Published anti-Nazi leaflets, put up posters and wrote grafitti on the walls to tell people what the Nazis were doing to the Jews.
The leaders were arrested and sentenced to the guillotine.
How did the Catholics oppose the Nazis?
1937: Pope’s message “With Burning Anxiety” attacked Hitler as “a mad prophet with repulsive arrogance” and was read in every Catholic Church.
Von Galen led a successful campaign to end the euthanasia of mentally-disabled people.
400 German Catholic priests were imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp by the regime.
How did Protestants oppose the Nazis?
Confessional Church in opposition to Hitler’s Reich Church was led by Neimoller.
He was held in a concentration camp (1937-45) and a total of 800 clergy were sent to camps.
Deitrich Bonhoffer was linked to the 1944 bomb plot and was executed.
What was the 1944 Bomb Plot?
Army officer Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg was part of a goup that detonated a bomb where Hitler was meeting Nazi leaders.
Killed 4 men but only injured Hitler.
