Resistance in Nazi Germany

Question	Answer
Edelweiss pirates	-listened to swing music, which the Nazis disliked, as it came from Black Americans -wore checked, non-Nazi clothing -redistributed the allies' propaganda leaflets -12 were hung for the assassination of the head of the Cologne Gestapo (though in Colonge they were known as Navjos) -Beat up Hitler Youth patrols
The White Rose Group	Hans and Sophie Scholl. Printed their own anti-Nazi leaflets Distributed to Munich Uni Tortured by Gestapo Trialled Guillotine-> beheaded
Swing Kids	-Basically irrelevant -Listened to swing music
Minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment	-Joseph Goebbels -Did nothing to oppose the Nazis -Was a Nazi -Spread pro-Nazi propaganda
The Army	-Faith lost in Hitler after they forgot to pack winter clothes when they attacked Russia, and were told to keep fighting even though it was obvious they were going to lose, heavy defeats on the eastern front -Did the July Bomb Plot
July Bomb Plot-1944	-July 20th, 1944 -Claus Von Stauffenberg, disabled (one arm, only 2 fingers on the other hand, and one eye missing) war hero -conference moved into more open space -suitcase moved to other side of table leg -no one seized power -conspirators

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