Opposition to the Nazis got worse during wartime

• Opposition to the Nazis got worse during wartime but was never a serious threat 
• Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who dissgreed with many of the Nazi's policies, failed to blow-up Hitler. 
• Cardinal Galen spoke out against the murders of mentally and physically disabled people. Galen was arrested and three priests who helped him were executed. 
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Protestant pastor who worked for the Abwehr (military intelligence) passed messages to underground resistance and helped organise the escape of Jews to Switzerland. He was arrested in 1943 and died in a concentration camp.
• In 1943 Jewish men who had Aryan wives were taken to a building on the 'Rosenstrasse' where they were to be sent to concentration camps. Their wives protested and the men were released. 
• The White Rose was a group at Munich University led by Sophie Scholl. They sent out 6-9000 anti-Nazi leaflets and were executed. 
•  As it became clear that the war was lost passive resistance grew: listening to the BBC and telling anti-Nazi jokes
•  Opposition was limited as people were scared; the Nazis did well at the start of the war; propaganda was effective and lastly some Germans didn't know about the Holocaust.