By: William, Mehul, Charles, Jia Ning

Mind MapNazi Opposition

Attempted Coup d'étatPassive

ResistancePrivate

GrumblingUnderground

Resistance

Abwehr (German

intelligence)

Georg Elser

Hans Oster

Networks ofSPD and KPD

Anti Nazi jokes

Didn’t get worse

Pleased withNazis

People wereAfraid

Didn’t knowWhat wasGoing on

Quibbles wereminor

ChristianChurch

Absent-eeism

SpreadingRumors

MergedTogether

How much Opposition was there? No coups during first 10 years of Nazi

rule Started onwards from 2nd World War Underground resistance Open opposition Passive resistance Non – cooperation People would grumble discreetly

Why didn’t private grumbling become an open opposition?

German people were afraid They didn’t know what was going on People didn’t ask too many questions They were ‘pleased’ with the Nazis

German Opposition to the Nazis People that opposed

Hitler’s regime Made plans to

overthrow Hitler – even to the extent of killing him

Normally small and isolated groups

More then 3 million German were in prison for political reasons

Several unequal strands (e.g., SPD, KPD, minorities in Christian churches, unorganized resistance)

Represented different classes of German society

Abwehr Hatched conspiracies

1938, 1939 but failed

The First Assassination Attempt Led by Hans Oster in

1938 Deputy head of the

Abwehr Dedicated opponent of

Hitler and Nazism Served as an officer on

the German General Staff during World War I

Executed 9th April 1945

1939 Assassination Attempt

Led by Georg Elser He was a carpenter Loathed Nazism and Hitler Performed the entire attempt on his

own Built a powerful time bomb Failed attempt – Hitler left 10

minutes early Executed 9th April 1945

Sources & Examples of OppositionSource 1 

“There was another knock at the door and a stranger entered. He said he had heard about my mother’s achievements. He had assumed that she was a member of the [Nazi] Party and only found out that she was not when he checked his records. No doubt that was just an oversight, he went on, and she would join? She did not want to become a member of the Party.

‘You realize you cannot keep your position as coach to our young girls, unless you are a member of the Party?’

My mother said surely coaching had nothing to do with politics… My mother had to give up her much-loved job.”

Source 2

Hitler made himself Commander-in-Chief of the German armed forces when army leaders argued against his plans.

Source 3In 1936, a Pastor named Heinrich Grueber set up a secret organisation to help Jews. He was arrested in 1940 and sent to a concentration camp.

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