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Nazi opposition - Coggle Diagram
Nazi opposition
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Young people
Edelweiss pirates
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1940s more political, distributed ani Nazi leaflets
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Swing Youth
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Anti establishment as opposed to anti Nazi, still repressed and leaders sent to camps
White Rose
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Arrested by Gestapo, brutally treated and hung with Sophie limping to gallows
Church opposition
Catholic Church
Arrangement with Catholic Church, concordat
Invalidated Pope Pius Xi issued with 'burning concern' after Nazis restricted Catholic schools organisations
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Pope rejected anti-Semitism in famous 1938 speech. Spiritually, we are all Semites
Bishop of Munster, Von Galen roused public opinion against Hitler's T4 programme and his 1941 sermon becoming famous
Niemoeller set up Confessional Church in response to German Faith Movement, was banned from preaching and spent 8 years in solitary confinement Dachau before being liberated
Dietrich Bonhoeffer supported Confessional Church, declared Christianity incompatible with National Socialism, joined resistance helped intel and assisted Jews escaping to Switzerland. Arrested 1943, went to camp and hung April 1945 a month before war end