GOVERNMENT PROTESTS AGAINST HITLER

BACKGROUND

• 1933-1945: Nazi Gernmany is in effect
• Totalitarian principle of government
• Dominance of Germanic groups assumed to be superior
• Protesters attempting to resist Hitlers dictatorship and genocide against Jews

3 SIGNIFICANT PROTESTS

• Protest on Rosenstrasse
• The White Rose Protest
• Operation Valkyrie

PROTEST ON ROSENSTRASSE

• 1943
• Jewish men were locked up at an administrative center of Jewish Community
• Day and night for a week- wives stood in front of Gestapo and demanded release of husbands
• Gestapo impressed by woman's resilience: "That is German Loyalty"
• 1,700 Jews saved from deportation

THE WHITE ROSE PROTEST

• Hans & Sophie Scholl- part of Hitler Youth
• Determined Hitler was enslaving/destroying Germany- stand up to regime
• University of Munich- "The White Rose" leaflet (4) and "Leaflets of Resistance" (2)
• First time dissent against Germany was published
• http://youtu.be/Mkq9O2qSTUU

"SOMEBODY HAD TO MAKE A START"

• February 18, 1943: discovered putting leaflets around University of Munich
• "What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare to express themselves"
• Mother tries to enter courtroom
• February 22, 1943: sentenced to death at guillotine
• Importance

OPERATION VALKYRIE

• July 1944
• Plan approved by Hitler
• General Fromm
• Assassination attempt & coup d'état
• General Stauffenberg

WOLF LAIR CONFERENCE ROOM

• Bomb planted in briefcase
• 12:42 bomb goes off
• Benito Mussolini
• Hitler holds conference to show he is alive
• Death of conspirators

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