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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
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.
This category includes activists and fighters in the German resistance of World War II Wikimedia Commons has media related to Members of the German Resistance . Contents
Belarusian family and the ruins of their village, 1944 Map of Operation Kugelblitz, an anti-partisan offensive in occupied Yugoslavia. During the Second World War, resistance movements that bore any resemblance to irregular warfare were frequently dealt with by the German occupying forces under the auspices of anti-partisan warfare.
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