opposition and resistance in the war

• Nazi Youth lost support: many leaders had to fight (run by youngsters), emphasis on military affairs made people look for alternatives
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer did not believe Christianity could accept Nazi racial policies and he was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler. October 1942 arrested and as the war progressed he was moved to a concentration camp. Hung.
• Germany's upper class and civil service actively resisted despite earlier followings of Hitler
• Military failings of winter 1942/3 encouraged opposition in the army.
• opposition not united and some opposition opposed the assassination of Hitler.
• The July bomb plot in 1944, known as the Stauffenberg bomb plot due to Colonel Stauffenberg. The bomb was placed in a briefcase, placed under Hitler's desk in a meeting however was moved slightly. Hitler was shielded by the edge of the table and Hitler used this plot to arrested 7000 opponents with 5000 killed.
• resistance treacherous and unpopular.