What Are The Acts Of Resistance In Nazi Germany

Acts of resistance against Nazi rule was commonly seen throughout Hitler’s empire. To resist is to ‘stop course of, repel, be proof against or unaffected…, strive against, oppose, try to impede, refuse to comply with’ . However, the meaning and levels of resistance within Nazi Germany varies between historians. This essay identifies resistance as stated by the Bacaria Project, “Resistance is understood as every form of active or passive behaviour which allows recognition of the rejection of the National Socialist regime or a partial area of National Socialist Ideology and was bound up with certain risks”. Hitler’s rule of Germany spanned from 1934 to 1945 and occupied countries during his time included; Sudetenland, Austria, Czechoslovakia,
The fourth leaflet stated “We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace!”. Given this was one of the early documents, it was asking civilians to trust in and join the movement. This statement also implies that civilians may have been hesitant to join the group’s resistance campaign but states that The White Rose will not leave the civilians until they support the resistance. The fifth document, distributed in January of 1943 and was titled 'Leaflets of the Resistance Movement in Germany'. It called for people to dissociate themselves from Nazism and get ready for the end of the war. The sixth and final document’s message was 'Fight against the Party!'. By this point civilians had invested in the campaign and were more likely to follow its instructions given the recent German defeat at Stalingrad in 1943. The following extract from leaflet six highlights one of the many strategies that the White Rose group employed when creating the document in order to gain traction amongst the civilians of Germany and that was to make it personal. This final leaflet was very persuasive and by including this particular section about the youth it was aimed at adults who had children or children in their family. It was giving the reader a sense of guilt that if they did not follow the resistance that the youth of the day would not escape the Nazism that was and would never
The name the Red Orchestra implied that the Soviet networked as a whole but in fact they were smaller networks designed to remain tight so that if one was betrayed not all of the operations would fail. Being a part of the RAIS there were very little details about the exact events. However, the Red Orchestra was essential in defeating the Germans. Although WWII was won by soldiers, sailors and airmen of Allied nations the decisions that were made by the generals and admirals was aided by the intelligence community. Members of the spy ring included; Jewish and non-Jewish people from many European countries and Palestine, ranging from Communists to factory workers, civil servants and strategically placed German officials. The leaders of the spy ring were labelled as the ‘conductors’ and ‘musicians’ were radio operators tapping out coded messages on wireless machines from transmitters. Over 1500 messages were sent to Moscow before the radio signals were discovered in 1942 and members of The Red Orchestra was taken into custody. By the end of 1942, 119 people had been arrested in Germany, 77 were tried before the Reich Court Martial from late 1942 to July