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The German resistance to Nazism (German: Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus) included unarmed and armed opposition and disobedience to the Nazi regime by various movements, groups and individuals by various means, from attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler or to overthrow his regime, defection to the enemies of the Third Reich and sabotage ...
The Jesuit Alfred Delp was an influential member of the Kreisau Circle - one of the few clandestine German Resistance groups operating inside Nazi Germany. Jakob Dautzenberg (1897–1979), KPD; Alfred Delp (1907–1945), Catholic church; Ria Deeg (1907–2000), Rote Hilfe; Anton Dey (1892–1973), SPD; Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992), actress ...
Volkssturm – a German resistance group and militia created by the NSDAP near the end of World War II; Werwolf – Nazi German resistance movement against the Allied occupation; Greek Resistance. List of Greek Resistance organizations; Cretan resistance; National Liberation Front (EAM) and the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), EAM's ...
The White Rose (German: Weiße Rose, pronounced [ˈvaɪsə ˈʁoːzə] ⓘ) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one professor at the University of Munich: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl.
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The general tone of East German work on the subject was well summarized by the introduction to the 1974 book Die deutsche antifaschistische Widerstandsbewegung, which stated: "The German anti-fascist resistance movement, especially the KPD and the forces allied to it, embodied the progressive line of German policy. The most consistent political ...
For a long time after World War II, only parts of the German resistance to Nazism had been known to the public within Germany and the world at large. [6] This included the groups that took part in the 20 July plot and the White Rose resistance groups. In the 1970s there was a growing interest in the various forms of resistance and opposition.
German resistance to Nazism; Landsturm, German resistance groups fighting against France during the Napoleonic Wars; Volkssturm, a German resistance group and militia created by the NSDAP near the end of World War II; Werwolf, a German guerrilla and pro-Nazi resistance organisation resisting Allied occupation of Germany