Anti-Nazi movement?

Question

What were some famous anti-nazi or anti-fascist movements during the Second World War in Germany? Or any famous anti-nazi individual?

Answer 1

"The German Resistance refers to those individuals and groups in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945. Some of these engaged in active plans to remove Hitler from power and overthrow his regime. Their plans culminated in the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 (the July 20 Plot)."

"The term German Resistance should not be understood as meaning that there was a united resistance movement in Germany at any time during the Nazi period, analogous to the more coordinated (for example) French Resistance. The German resistance consisted of small and usually isolated groups. They were unable to mobilise political opposition to Hitler, and their only real strategy was to persuade leaders of the German Army to stage a coup against the regime: the 1944 assassination plan was intended to trigger such a coup."

"Contents"

"1 Introduction
2 Prewar resistance 1933-39
3 Resistance in the Army 1938-42
4 The first assassination attempt
5 Catholic resistance
6 The nadir of resistance: 1940-42
7 Communist resistance
8 The airplane assassination attempt
9 The exhibition assassination attempt
10 Stalingrad and White Rose
11 Unorganised resistance
12 Towards July 20
13 To the bitter end "

More at "German Resistance" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widerstand

See also "White Rose" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_rose

"Red Orchestra" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Orchestra_%28spy%29

Joachim Fest, "Plotting Hitler’s Death: The German Resistance to Hitler 1933-1945" (English edition Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1996),

Ian Kershaw, "Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris" (W.W.Norton, 1998) and "Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis" (W.W.Norton, 2000)

Roger Manvell and Heinrich Frankel, "The Canaris Conspiracy: The Secret Resistance to Hitler in the German Army" (1969)

Answer 2

Rote Kapella (red circle) which was torn apart by the Nazi's. There was the officer's plot of 7/21/44 that was to overthrow the govt and end the war once Hitler was dead and the other high ranking govt officals. Another group was the Confessing Church headed by Martin Niemoller, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Karl Barth.

Answer 3

During Hitler's reign over Germany in the War years from 1939 to 1945 there existed a non-Jewish German underground anti-Nazi group called "The White Rose"

Please read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose

Bear in mind that the effecient Gestapo rounded them all up, they enjoyed a short trial, and all were led into a basement cell and had their heads chopped off one by one. Nazi Germany executed its criminals by guillotine (the thing had a motor on it and chopped up and down like a sheet metal cutter).

Answer 4

Dietrich Bonhoffer

Answer 5

You're joking, right ? Anyone who who made any anti-Nazi statements in public would be shot dead.