Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Resistance
- Workers
- Many didn't believe the DAF was working in their
interest but few expressed discontent
- depoliticised and working-class
organisations were broken up
- Biggest method of opposition was to withdraw
their Labour or sabotage production, which was
even more frequent during rearmament when Jews
were forced to work in munitions factories
- Strikes
- 37 strikes recorded in 1935 - 25,000 strikers
- Of the 25,000 who participated
over 4,000 spent short periods
of time in prison
- In the last quarter of 1936 there was 100
strikes and 250 over the whole of '37
- 17-minute stoppage in Opal, 7 ring leaders were
arrested by the Gestapo and either sent to
concentration camps or executed
- Political Resistance
- KPD
- Were more prepared to
oppose than the SPD
- Cell network established and Newspapers printed but
broken up by Gestapo
- Word and Mouth to prevent being caught
(Survival not revolution)
- first political party to be banned
- SPD
- Largest Union in Europe, opposed
against the enabling acta dn was
subjected to SA violence and
suppression
- Not very well prepared for underground activities
- In 1933 thousands of activists murdered or put
under 'protective custody'
- Smuggled propaganda posters
out of and around Germany
- Reduction in unemployment
meant that these groups lost
support rapidly
- Churches
- Protestants
- Martin Neimoller - Protestant Pastor,
Berlin - rejected the aryan paragraph
- Founder of Pastor's Emergency Act and was held up as a martyr in the
confessional Church
- Catholics
- Papa Von Galen - issued pamphlets
rejecting Rosenbergs views of racial soul. As
a result double the normal attendance at
annual July procession to show support for
their Bishop 19,000
- Papal Encyclical - posted by Pope entitled 'with
burning concern'. Smuggled into Germany and
printed in 12 different places (Pope in Italy)
- No official protest
- Youth
- Loss of interest in Hitler Youth once
it became copulsary and towards late
30's more militant
- stopped paying dues or simply didn't attend
- Stauber of Danzig - group
waylaid and robbed soldiers at
home on leave from the army
- White Rose Group - Sophie and Hans Scholl
- Elites
- After Hindenburgs death there was
only a military coup which had the
power to overthrow Hitler
- Elites did however support Hitlers plans for Germany
despite his methods so very few actually opposed the
Nazis
- growing unease over rapid rearmament and drift of
Foreign Policy, opposition of forcing Germany into a
war it was not yet prepared for
- General Beck opposed Hitlers plan to
invade Czechoslovakia as it was almost
definitely going to cause a war, London and
Paris were informed of the military coup but
France and Britain did not put up any fight