...Rose Resistance Group It was September 1, 1939 and Adolf Hitler had just invaded Poland with Britain and France declaring war on Germany 2 days later (Cain, 2014). This marked the beginning of World War II. Hitler continued his march through Europe invading Denmark and Norway in 1940, launching the Blitzkrieg in May of 1940 against Holland and Belgium which were subsequently occupied by the Third Reich. In early 1941, Italy and Germany attacked Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete and then on June 22, 1941 Hitler sends nearly 3 million soldiers and 3,500 tanks into Russia. Stalin was stunned because Russia had just signed a treaty with Germany in 1939 but then immediately signed a mutual assistance treaty with Britain and launched an Eastern front battle claiming 20 million casualties. Europe was in ruins and many of its people were murdered, seeking refuge or forming resistance groups against Hitler’s regime. Several anti-Nazi movements began, one of which was The White Rose Resistance Group based out of Munich, Germany at the University....
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...quickly put into motion his plans of racial purification by organizing the military and police for this purpose. The three nazi groups that were important to Hitler were the SS, S.D Security service and the gestapo. The gestapo were above the law and in charge of terrorized, murdered,and sending people to concentration camps. They were free to arrest anyone they pleased without any consequences. During the Holocaust, the main job of the gestapo was to arrest Jews and others who opposed them. Before the gestapo was formed they were the secret police of Prussia. They were part of the political department in Berlin and part of the Weimer Republic. They were like the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
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...Jewish Resistance Fighters In World War II Background: There were many different types of resistance against the Nazi regime during World War Two some involving those who were directly targeted by the Nazis and those that were passive or against the Nazis. Aims: In this report I plan to talk about the different groups of people resisted to the German rule, such as; • Those who were helped by the allies or other anti-Nazi organisations • Those who independently resisted the Nazi rule despite not being directly targeted by them. • Those who were in ghettos or work camps • People who escaped German Concentration Camps. • Tito's Resistance group During the Holocaust, around twenty five thousand Jewish people actively resisted the Nazi party in every European country that was occupied by Axis powers. Most of these Jews joined existing non-Jewish resistance groups and although these people were fighting for the same cause, some Jews still concealed their religion due to the long embedded anti-Semitism in Europe....
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...must choose between his love interest or helping his love interest’s husband, a renowned leader of Czech Resistance movement, in fighting against the Nazi occupation in the Czech Republic. While Rick appears politically neutral, he is shown in the movie as having helped Ethiopians fight against fascist Italia hence his neutrality is only a cover. The thematic concepts that run through the course of the movie show that Rick must choose between his own individual happiness of reuniting with his love interest who is now married to the Resistance leader, or helping her and her husband in their fight for a greater common good that is the liberation of Czech Republic from the horrors of the Nazi regime that is taking over Europe. This paper examines the ideas that intersect between the characters and scenarios from the motion picture Casablanca, and philosopher Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative, as well as how the motion picture supports the claims of Immanuel Kant and of philosopher John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism by making examples of the good and evil within Casablanca. Background on Casablanca Rick Blaine is the protagonist character in Casablanca that seemingly only lives by serving his own self-interests while maintaining his cynical world view while the World War II rages. Casablanca, Morocco at the time is however a route via refugees from Europe escape the Nazi and fascist...
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...citizens do if the law is morally corrupt? From the anti-Semitic laws of Nazi Germany to the racial discrimination laws of the United States in the twentieth century, many countries have had laws that its citizens felt were immoral. That is where the concept of peaceful resistance or ‘Civil Disobedience’ comes in. Civil Disobedience is defined by Cambridge dictionary as “the refusal of citizens to obey certain laws or pay taxes as a peaceful way to express disapproval of those laws or taxes. ” This idea of peaceful resistance has positively impacted society in many instances. Peaceful resistance takes courage. An individual who decides to peacefully resist a law is often putting...
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...The White rose was a Jewish resistance group that made a very big impact on World War Two but they didn't use guns to fight the nazi troops, they used words. The white rose was a group of student medical corps from the army who met in Munich. They would talk about literature,philosophy,religion,music, and drank wine late into the night. The group was a very fun and loving at the time, but that was before the nazis attacked. Once the nazis started to take Jews and take over the Jewish population Hans scholl and Alexander schmorell decided to take action against the nazi regime. The students who formed the white rose started to question the nazis ideals and ridicule their grand public displays and rallies. A man named mueller got himself his...
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...but they chose to resist against the Nazi regime in support of Jews and political prisoners. Vera Laska began leading Jewish and political prisoners from Czechoslovakia to Hungary, to Yugoslavia, and even other countries in an underground railroad movement. She acquired false identification papers for these individuals so that they could flee the Nazi takeover. Unfortunately, she was caught crossing the borders with these false papers, and was arrested and eventually taken to Birkenau, a combination concentration/extermination camp, as a political prisoner. In her testimonial she states: “I remember anger. I saw a few months before the war started, I saw the German Army march into my country, and it was heartbreaking, it was very heartbreaking, because all these ideals that we grew up with: freedom, truth shall prevail; all that went down the drain…it was a very bitter moment” (USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, Lask, Vera). Her words portray true emotion, drawing the listener into her fearful thoughts and eliciting a very sympathetic response, as thousands of other testimonies do about the Holocaust. Reidar Dittmann, another resistance member was arrested for “leading young people into singing anti-German songs” (Reidar Dittmann). However, after he was released six weeks later, he officially joined the resistance as a member of the Norway underground newspaper. “We wanted to activate people a little bit more in the resistance and at that time we had no sense of sabotage...
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...Movement 1.What did “movement’ begin to refer to after the two world wars? What are some examples? “Movement” began to refer specifically to groups of people coming together to seek political, economic, cultural, but especially social change. For example, the us civil rights, black power, anti-war student, women’s ecology and gay movements promoted a new label: social movements. 2.What are three features of the “new social movements”? The new social movements frequently rejected or offered revision to the political theories that predominated. The new social movements had more generalized demand. The target of new social movements was as much as prevailing mainstream attitudes as it was swaying the electorate or changing state administrative practices. Resistance 3.What was the “different twist” that resistance took after the second world war? It formed in 1940 by “patriot” committed to repulsing the occupying the forces of Nazi Germany. Therefore, this national-popular image took a different twist, in the rhetoric of anti-colonist and third world struggles aimed against the western nations themselves. 4.What are some examples of “social groups” that resist? Resistance to the capitalist and capitalism by the industrial working class, women’s resistance to patriarchy; ethic minority resistance to white “cultural imperialism”; children’s resistance to parents’ power; resistance of global “South” to the global “North”. Power 5. What is “discursive power”...
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...about the event if it had been closer chronologically. The second source evaluated is the White Rose leaflets. In 1942, the White Rose group was formed by six German college students with the goal of calling up resistance to the Nazi government and to be aimed towards the educated elite in Germany. Each initial member attended the University of Munich. The founder of the group, Hans Scholl, was a former member of the Hitler Youth until he became disgusted of the aims of this group. Christoph Probst, Willi Graf, and Alexander Schmorell, and Hans’ sister Sophie were the other White Rose members and authors. Hans and an accomplice first wrote four leaflets which exposed Nazi and Schutzstaffel atrocities, including the extermination of Jews and Polish nobility. This is a primary source, which gives value because they were written while all surrounding Nazi idealisms were prevalent and thriving; especially in Germany, where these were written. A limitation is that all of these kids were not directly being affected by Nazism flaws, such as the Jews were. So their accusations and opinions are from an external point of view, not knowing the full extent of the situation. The purpose of these leaflets, however, is a limitation because it is very bias about the opposition to Nazi idealism and only discussed one side of the matter. The fact that these were aimed to be read by the educated elite is also a limitation because this would exclude people of lower intelligence to be able to understand;...
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...deliberate targeting of civilians. Soldiers, members of both the Allied and Axis Powers suffered immensely throughout the war. The Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of over 6 million Jews and non-Semitics , arose as a result of Hitler’s fascist ideals and saw widespread suffering. As a result of the new technological advances throughout the war, bombing became a major tactic and many major cities were destroyed, which resulted in the death and evacuation of many civilians and widespread suffering. Rations were introduced because of a restricted food supply. This shortage resulted in the death of many civilians and soldiers. Resistance fighters, if captured, would face certain death at...
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...Like other young Germans, they enthusiastically joined the Hitler Youth. They believed that Adolf Hitler was leading Germany and the German people back to greatness. Gradually, Hans and Sophie began realizing that Hitler and the Nazis were enslaving and destroying the German people. They also knew that open rebellion was impossible in Nazi Germany, especially after the start of World War II. Many of the citizen supported the troops and the government. But Hans and Sophie Scholl begged to differ . They believed that it was the duty of a citizen, even in times of war, to stand up against evil, especially when it is sending hundreds of thousands of citizens to their deaths.The most significant part was they formed the White Rose movement, one of the few movements inside Nazi Germany that was openly opposed to Hitler.They published six anti-Nazi leaflets, graffiti began appearing in large letters on streets and buildings: “Down with Hitler! . . . Hitler the Mass Murderer!” and . . . Freedom! . . . Freedom!” Sadly, they were arrested, tried for treason, found guilty and sentenced to death and died by being beheaded. What I found especially meaningful for me was the fact that they took a stand once they realized how evil and corrupted Hitler and the Nazi were and faced death with a smile and open arms. Most young adults my age are too afraid to speak up against what they know is wrong and that’s our dilemma in our generation; we are so...
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...Triet Hoang Online Exhibitions The Carmelite friar Father Jacques de Je was born Lucien Bunel in 1900. He was headmaster of the Petit College Saint-Therese de l Enfant Jesus in Avon, France, which became a refuge for Jews andyoung men seeking to avoid conscription for forced labor in Germanyduring the Nazi .Father Jacques was sent to KZ Gusen I for trying to rescue several Jewish boys in Nazi-occupied France. He had enrolled 3 Jewish boys, Hans-Helmut Michel, Jacques-France Halpern and Maurice Schlosser, as students under false names in 1943 and hid others in the Couvent des Carmes of Avon . Jacques and the 3 Jewish boys were seized by the Gestapo on January 15, 1944. On February 3, 1944 the Jewish boys and another Jewish family were sent to KZ Auschwitz. After being sent to several other Nazi camps, Jacques arrived at KZ Gusen I around July 1944. Here he was forced to engage in the most difficult labor constructing a water-reservoir. He also worked on the final inspection command of "Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG" at KZ Gusen I (Georgenmuehle), where he labored alongside Louis, Jean Cayrol and Professor Roger Heim.According to his comrades, "P re Jacques" was a most optimistic person in the KZ Gusen commands and motivated many of his comrads to share their food and to believe in liberation. So, like "Papa Gruber" , he helped many survive.P re Jacques also gave his comrades spiritual support and even baptized some of them in KZ Gusen I. Young Polish comrades of his also testify...
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...of general criteria, without legal process, and not under individual judgements. The Nazi regime has created confusion on using the term concentration camp to designate some of its camps; it should be distinguished, even if the conditions of detention in concentration camps can lead to levels of morbidity and extremely high mortality. A concentration camp is a detention facility where they locked up, usually a simple decision of the police or the army, people who are considered troublesome for power.Most concentration camps were also forced labor camps.(Lucas,1987,p.64) Mortality is very high due to poor living conditions, work and food. Those concentration/extermination camps were created by Adolf Hitler and the first one was named Dachau saw the day on January 1933. Twenty three camps were created but there were also sub camps which were smaller. The Holocaust, the concentration camps, were functional from January 30th, 1933, to May 8th 1945.The objectives of the concentration Concentration camps 3 camps set up by the Nazi regime include: crush all political opposition and trade union, annihilate the resistance movements, serve the population of persons regarded as useless or harmful, operate a large number of forced laborers (labor camp), exterminate the Jews and Gypsies (extermination camps). What happened there was a miserable persecution. Why were Jews persecuted by Nazis? The ideological singularity of...
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...On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. For a long time, many of the Jews held on to the belief that some of them would survive; that the Nazis did not plan to kill them all. Surely, they said, the Nazis would not kill so many valuable factory workers, these workers were vital for the Nazi war effort, it simply made no sense! The Jew held on to his sense of logic and could not fathom the Nazi plan of genocide. The signs were there. In retrospect, they were very clear, but the idea was so unthinkable to normal civilized people that most Jews were simply unable to draw the correct conclusion. Others realized that logic was dead, and soon so would be the Jew. Now there was no longer any doubt. Now they knew that the trains that arrived daily were not taking them for “resettlement.” The destination of the deportations was now known to the Jews—it was the Treblinka Death...
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...Concession is more effective than repression, as it can mitigate the causes of popular resistance. The ability to reduce support is the principal measure of success. Additionally, effective policy must counter the specific challenges posed by non-violent protest. As a result, the long-term successes of concession-based policies prove the usefulness of this method. However, most policies involve a balance between concession and repression. The unsustainability of repression demonstrates that concession is necessary to this balance. However, non-violent repression, such as the use of state media to suppress free speech, remains useful. It pairs well with concession, as it can silence key resistance figures. Due to this, concession is the most...
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