Resistance

Resistance

Workers
1. Many didn't believe the DAF was working in their interest but few expressed discontent
  1. depoliticised and working-class organisations were broken up
2. 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
  1. Strikes
    1. 37 strikes recorded in 1935 - 25,000 strikers
      1. Of the 25,000 who participated over 4,000 spent short periods of time in prison
    2. In the last quarter of 1936 there was 100 strikes and 250 over the whole of '37
    3. 17-minute stoppage in Opal, 7 ring leaders were arrested by the Gestapo and either sent to concentration camps or executed
Political Resistance
1. KPD
  1. Were more prepared to oppose than the SPD
  2. Cell network established and Newspapers printed but broken up by Gestapo
    1. Word and Mouth to prevent being caught (Survival not revolution)
  3. first political party to be banned
2. SPD
  1. Largest Union in Europe, opposed against the enabling acta dn was subjected to SA violence and suppression
    1. Not very well prepared for underground activities
  2. In 1933 thousands of activists murdered or put under 'protective custody'
  3. Smuggled propaganda posters out of and around Germany
3. Reduction in unemployment meant that these groups lost support rapidly
Churches
1. Protestants
  1. Martin Neimoller - Protestant Pastor, Berlin - rejected the aryan paragraph
    1. Founder of Pastor's Emergency Act and was held up as a martyr in the confessional Church
2. Catholics
  1. 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
  2. Papal Encyclical - posted by Pope entitled 'with burning concern'. Smuggled into Germany and printed in 12 different places (Pope in Italy)
  3. No official protest
Youth
1. Loss of interest in Hitler Youth once it became copulsary and towards late 30's more militant
  1. stopped paying dues or simply didn't attend
2. Stauber of Danzig - group waylaid and robbed soldiers at home on leave from the army
3. White Rose Group - Sophie and Hans Scholl
Elites
1. After Hindenburgs death there was only a military coup which had the power to overthrow Hitler
  1. Elites did however support Hitlers plans for Germany despite his methods so very few actually opposed the Nazis
2. growing unease over rapid rearmament and drift of Foreign Policy, opposition of forcing Germany into a war it was not yet prepared for
3. 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

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