Wartime Opposition Flashcards
Who led the July 1944 bomb plot
Claus Graf von stauffenberg
What was the operation called for the 1944 bomb plot
Operation Valkyrie
What was the aim of operation valkyrie
Kill Hitler to allow the use of the reserve army in Berlin to remove the ss
Why was the July 1944 bomb plot unsuccessful
It was supposed to be an underground bunker , but moved to a wooden cabin
Table in the way, briefcase maybe moved ?
What was the outcome of the July 1944 bomb plot
Hitler came out injured but alive, a few people died , anyone suspected to be involved was arrested , stauffenberg was shot on the same night
Who was cardinal galen and what did he do
A catholic bishop who spoke out against the nazis in his sermons
who spoke badly of the nazis in his sermons
Cardinal galen
What was cardinal galen critical of especially
The treatment of disabled people
What else did the bishop disagree with
Taking church property and the use of terror from the gestapo
What happened to Galen
He was put under house arrest as he was too important and released at the end of the war
what did people do with his sermons
Printed and distributed them
What were thee three main war time oppositions to Hitler
Leaflets and postcard
Assassination attempts
Public criticism
Who was Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Protestant pastor who opposed the nazis right from the start
What did Bonhoeffer do
Joined the abwehr and helped organise the escape of Jewish people to Switzerland
What happened to the pastor
He was arrested and killed in flossenburg concentration camp two weeks before the end of the war
Who was the resistant Protestant pastor
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What is the abwehr
Military intelligence which contained officers secretly opposed to the Nazis
Who was in the white rose group
Hans and Sophie scholl
What did the white rose group do
Produced a series of anti nazi leaflets , encouraging resistance
When and how were the scholls caught
18th feb 1943, by a caretaker after chucking leaflets down a balcony , he alerted the gestapo and they were executed
who produced leaflets as opposition as well as the white rose group
Otto and Elise hampel
What caused the couple to feel resistant
Elise’s brother was killed
What did Otts and Elise do
Hand wrote 200 postcards and left them in stairwells post boxes etc
what happened to the hampels
Were executed in April 1943, after nearly all of the postcards were handed in (showing Germans fear)
What happened in February 1943
Part Jewish husbands and children were arrested and held in a prison on Rosen street
What did the wives of these husbands arrested do
Gathered outside the prison and chanted , they didn’t back down even surrounded by the SS
When were the husbands released
5th of March 1943
Give four reasons why there wasn’t more opposition
Lack of knowledge
Fear
Nazi propaganda
Nazi success
Why did Nazi propaganda stop opposition
Goeballs won the hearts of many Germans , seeking the myth hitler was their saviour
