Who was the most significant anti-Hitler German and why?

Question

Would it be Von Stauffenberg and his bomb, or Niemoller and his religious convictions? Or maybe Beck, Canaris or even Hess?

Answer 1

I think it was Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He was a Christian minister and yet he felt that Hitler was so evil that DB joined a plot to assassinate Hitler. That has raised all sorts of ethical and religious issues down through the years. His writings are available. He was killed by Hitler (as were a lot of Christian pastors, because Hitler didn't like the Christians any better than Jews). And whatever side you come down on relative to the action Bonhoeffer took, he has caused many people to think very deeply about really important issues.

Answer 2

A nihilist answer - - - no one - - - all but Niemoller failed miserably and Niemoller only succeeded on a moral level. Actually here is a great Candidate -- -- the Actress Marlene Dietrich. In 1933 when Hitler came to power the Nazis begged her to come back to work in Germany. Dietrich was promised great wealth, choice of estates seized from enemies of the states, in fact there was a joke that Marlene was given a guarantee than she would not have to sleep with Josef Goebbels. Dietrich told the Nazis to 'Go to Hell.' Dietrich became a conduit for German refugees, bad mouthed the Nazis throughout the late 1930's especially when she was in England making movies. When World War Two broke out Marlene was among the first to entertain America's troops, exhorting them to bomb the crap out of Germany. Marlene even slept with several high ranking American and British Officers and what sort of pillow talk did she engage in ? Yep, that;s right, she told them horrible nasty things about the Nazis and encouraged them to invade Germany. Catch the cynicism of her portrayal of a 'loyal German' in Billy Wilder's 'A Foreign Affair.' After World War Two Marlene continued to speak against Germany accusing many of accommodating ex-Nazis.

When a certain German Car Company used Marlene Dietrich's rendition of 'Falling In Love Again' as their theme it was a gross insult to her memory.

Answer 3

I would have to say it was the group called "Biebelforsher", or International Bible Students (now known as Jehovah's Witnesses). Why?

1) They refused to "Heil" Hitler, because they had already given their allegiance to Jesus Christ as their leader. (Heil means "My leader is..." or "Salvation belongs to...")

2) Because of this they were the first group sent to the concentration camps. Some were sent to prisons & others were beheaded. And children were taken from their homes and put in so-called reform schools, or sent to labor camps.

3) They were the ONLY group who were given the unique opportunity to be set free from the camps if they would only sign a paper renouncing their religion and firm stand of neutrality. (The number who actually signed this release form can be counted on one hand.)

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Answer 4

Don't know.

Answer 5

GOD.