oppposition to nazis

• Opposition to the Nazis


  Crimes punishable by death during WW2
• Opposition to the Nazis


  • Listening to the BBC
  • Telling an anti-Hitler joke
  • Defeatism
• The Nazis forced all 28 Protestant Churches in Germany to join the Reich Church
• Reich Church


  The aim was to Nazify the Churches
• Confessional Church


  A traditional Protestant Church set up in opposition to the Reich Church
• Confessional Church


  • It was popular in rural areas which the Nazis were also popular
  • It was not anti-Nazi, however its leaders were
  • One leader, Bonhoeffer, was involved in the July 20th Bomb Plot and executed in 1944
• Catholic opposition


  • The Catholic Church successfully led opposition to Action T4
  • Catholic schools were legally abolished in 1939, however an attempt to remove crucifixes from school was scrapped in 1941 after massive protests
• Bonhoeffer was executed in 1944
• Galen opposed the Nazis
• Swing Youth


  Middle class, listened to jazz, wore American clothes, smoked and drank
• Edelweiss Pirates


  Working class, sang anti-Nazi songs, beat up members of the HJ, assassinated the head of the Gestapo in Cologne in 1944 and 13 were executed
• White Rose Movement


  • Made up of upper class, educated, religious students, the two leaders were Hans and Sophie Scholl
  • They sent letters to prominent people in Munich criticising the Nazis as being amoral
  • They were caught leaving anti-Nazi leaflets at Munich University on February 18th 1943 and were put on trial and executed on February 22nd 1943
• The Kreisau Circle opposed the Nazis
• The July 20th Bomb Plot involved von Stauffenberg