resistance position to hitler

• Resistance and opposition to Hitler


  • Explore why some Germans resisted and opposed the Nazis
  • Outline the different resistance groups and their methods to oppose the Nazis
  • Assess how effectively the Nazis dealt with resistance and opposition
• Moaning or grumbling about the Nazis


  The lowest type of opposition to the Nazis, often in the privacy of their own homes, people might tell anti-Hitler jokes or complain about treatment of Jewish friends
• Passive resistance


  When Germans publicly showed they didn't support the Nazis by refusing to do exactly as they were told, e.g. refusing to give the Heil Hitler salute or give money to the Hitler Youth
• Anti-Nazi youth movement


  1. How did this group oppose the Nazis?

  2. How did the Nazis deal with them?
• Anti-Nazi youth movements


  • The White Rose Group
  • The 'Swing' movement
  • The Edelweiss Pirates
• Attempts to kill Hitler

  Around 50 assassination attempts, some by lone individuals and others by organised groups like the Kreisau Circle
• The 1944 plot


  A army officer Colonel Claus von Staffenberg agreed to be part of a group that would detonate a bomb where Hitler was meeting other Nazi leaders
• The July Bomb Plot


  Despite killing four men, burning Hitler's hair, bursting his eardrums and blowing some of his clothes off, the bomb failed to kill him