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    Hitler's Nazi Hit List

    By Stephen Cohen

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    The German Resistance Movement did not have a unified common front. There were different factions and groups with varied ideologies who participated in these struggles. In the beginning, there were resistance groups led mostly by civilians, who wanted to overthrow the Nazi regime. The civilians did not have the power to remove the dictatorship. The German army was the only group with that potential. A small group of German army officers started to conspire against Hitler. They gained support from Abwehr, a military intelligence agency, and the Foreign Office. Several reasons led to the flourishing of the German Resistance movement. Some of the prominent reasons are-
    1.The Nazi party's decision to increase Germany's military power and to nazify Germany.
    2.Hitler's plan to invade Czechoslovakia to move forward with his ambition to conquer the Western region
    3.The persecution of Jews, trade union leaders, and homosexuality
    4.The Nazi regime formed an aggressive foreign policy
    These policies led to the development of anti-Nazi sentiments and caused the strengthening of the German Resistance Movement. Other acts of harassment by the Nazi regime include suppression of churches and policing done by the Gestapo, a secret police force under the Nazi party. There were oppositions led the Christian churches, Habsburg-motivated groups, and underground political parties like the Social Democrats and Communists. These resistance fighters mostly ended up in concentration camps. There were several other minor resistance movements as well.
    Though all the resistance plots failed, the most powerful amongst them was the movement heralded by the army officers who worked for the Nazi government. They plotted to assassinate Hitler several times, including the 20 July plot.
    After Hitler assumed power, he suppressed the press and radio. The concordat with the Holy See brought about an end to resistance from the Catholic Church. People had lost faith in democracy with the fall of the Weimer Republic, which further strengthened the Nazi regime.
    In 1938, Ernst von Weizacker, the Under-Secretary of State, along with Ulrich von Hassel, Roman ambassador, Friedreich Graf von der Schulenburg, the ambassador of Moscow, and officials like Adam von Trott zu Solz, Hans Bernd von Haeften, and Erich Kordt, formed a network for organising resistance against the Nazi regime. The main centre of resistance activities took place within the intelligence services, including the Abwehr. Important conspirators who were part of the Abwehr included Colonel Hans Oster, deputy head of the Military Intelligence Office, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the Chief of the Abwehr, Hans Bernd Gisevius, an officer in the Internal Ministry, and Hjalmar Schacht, Reichsbank's governor. Operating an open coup against Hitler was impossible because of the political power of the regime. By 1936, Oster and Gisevuis concluded that an end to Hitler could only lead to the fall of the Nazi regime.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Cohen
    Release dateSep 28, 2020
    ISBN9781005944377
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