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Wartime Opposition to the Nazis
- July Bomb Plot 1944
- Also called
Stauffenberg Plot or
Operation Valkyrie
- Led by Colonel Von
Stauffenberg
- Aim: To kill Hitler
and use the reserve
army to remove the
SS and Gestapo
- Events: 20th July Stauffenberg
took a suitcase of explosives into
a strategy meeting with Hitler.
The bomb did not kill Hitler and
the plotters were all arrested and
executed.
- Reasons for failure:
Table leg took the
impact, moved from a
bunker to an open
room, explosives not
strong enough
- White Rose Group
- Led by Hans and Sophie Scholl
- Events: They were students
who handed out leaflets at
Munich University. They
were caught by a caretaker
and executed
- Reason: Hans Scholl had
witnessed the treatment of
Jews whilst fighting on the
Eastern Front
- Passive Resistance
- Saying 'Good Morning' instead of 'Heil Hitler'
- Telling Anti-Nazi Jokes
- Reading
banned
literature
- Listening to the BBC
- Hiding Jews
- Religious Opposition
- Cardinal Galen
- Catholic Priest delivered
anti-Nazi sermons. 3 other
Priests were arrested. Galen
survived because he was an
important person in the
Church
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Protestant Pastor.
Joined the Abwehr
as a spy. Sent secret
messages that
helped Jews escape.
Murdered by the SS