Were there any people that were trying to warn the German people of the Dangers of the Nazi Government?

Question

You never heard about them. What were done with those people? Locked in concentration camps?

Answer 1

Just like what Stalin did with his opposition, the new to power NAZI ruling party eliminated any vocal opposition. Yes there were Germans who did not agree with the NAZI's, but it was "bad for your health" to make your views public during their rule. Those that tried to enlighten in the papers with another point-of-view against the Nazi ruling party usually were threatened and eventually disappeared. Even those within the German army (not to be confused with the SS or Nazi's theirselves) were not keen on the idea of the NAZI's coming to power. Part of the reason the Nazi Party was able to come into power during the 1930's was based on instilling national pride back to the German people. After World War 1 the germans had to surrender to unfavorable terms. During the coming years their economy began to suffer and gave the Nazi's a favorable enviroment in which to instill their values. They preached of a national pride and restoring Germany to their former pre-WW1 glory. Prior to starting a conflict with Poland (which ignited the beginning of WW2), the Nazi's improved the conditions of the German people by creating industrial jobs building a larger, better equipped army. Having jobs again, food on the table and a stable economy after years of suffering won alot of Germans over even if they did not entirely agree with the Nazi doctrine (Even though it was against any immigrants and used people of Jewish decent as scapegoats for why the economy was so poor prior to the Nazi party coming into power, it made no mention of the extermination of millions of 'undersirable' people. This fact was unknown to most Germans until after the war.)

Answer 2

Yes the people were warning other people { civilians } . People seriously need to study history because before Hitler got power , he had to destroy the Constitution { yes Germany had a Constitution which was alot similar to our own } they had the same thoughts as we do currently , that there country was going to turn into a police state . But they let it happen without rising up against the government because they believed what there leaders told them and they were scared for there lives of another terrorist attack like the burning of Reichstag among other things . So the people went along with it , the sad part is the Germans beliefs were right - There country did turn into a police state and once that happened they couldn't revolt without being killed , they had to put up with whatever the government wanted . Years later it was revealed that the Germans bombed there own Reichstag and blamed it on a peasant , the Germans shot a Jewish man in a polish army uniform to make it appear the almighty German state was being attacked by Poland , I could go on and on . The real question should be - Will America follow Germans path ? Some say it already has , personally I will never live in a Police State and if that did happen in America I would have to revolt or die .

Answer 3

Many influential Nazis claimed after the fact to have been appalled at Hitler's atrocities. On the whole they didn't, or couldn't, do much to stop it, however. The philosopher Martin Heidegger denounced Nazism as soon as the war was lost; but we can see from his letters and orations that he indeed did hate the Jews, the "doltified" English science and democracy. General Erwin Rommel, one of Hitler's top battlefield commanders, was supposedly involved in an attempted military coup against Hitler, although the details of this will probably never be certain. Quantum Physicist Max Planck was one of the most outspoken Germans against the Nazis' crimes; but he was forced to leave the country and was only able to return after the war to rebuild Germany's academic infrastructure. If Germans were against Nazi atrocities, they were closely watched and not allowed to change things very much. Many Germans were tortured, imprisoned, exiled or executed for speaking out; and the punishment of these traitors was, for the most part, accepted.

Answer 4

Many Germans opposed Hitler. They were treated as enemies by the majority, who wanted a resumption of the Great War. Dissidents were considered bad Germans the same way many treat anti Iraq protesters as bad Americans.

Be grateful we have some legal protections against the excesses of government. There are so called patriots who would suspend habeus corpus entirely, and Ban groups like the Dixie Chicks from performing entirely.

Without such free traditions, Germans were beaten and killed. Many were locked in concentration camps, or forced to flee. Incidentally, Hitler survived the 1944 bomb plot because the briefcase containing the bomb was moved, not because he left the room.

Further, the bomb plot was launched because he was losing the war by people who had supported him initially. It is not a good example of German resistance, as it would not have been considered as long as he was successful.

The number of actual active German resistance members was minuscule. Hitler was elected, and would have been elected as long as his military success continued. Postwar German dissidence has been greatly exaggerated. Had Germany won they would have all been good Nazis.

Answer 5

Liberals be responsive to as much as a field of rocks.. The Liberal ideology is a thought , fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and which holds forth ideals that have no foundation rather. Criminals do no longer pay any interest to regulations... If weapons have been ever banned than purely the undesirable men could have them..Criminals choose unarmed sufferers!! Having a gun won't help for all time yet being defenseless will on no account help.. whilst seconds rely calling 911 and asking the undesirable guy to attend isn't a potential decision. extra useful to have a gun and not want it than to need it and not have it!!! **Police do no longer guard you from crime, they often merely look into the crime after it happens.** @

Answer 6

Many Lutherans from Nothern regions help smuggle Jews out of the country. Becuase most Lutheran are blond hair, blue eyed we are now being attacked as Nazis. WE HELPED THE JEWS escape unharmed from Nazi Germany and we are now being penalized and attacked by the children and grandchildren of the people whos butts we saved!!!

Remember - Lutherans are Protestants - and at the time where still considered heritics by many Catholics in Nazi Germany.

Answer 7

Their were, the vocal ones at the start were, as you mentioned, locked away. About 6 million non-Jews locked away in concentration camps, most of them executed. This happened early in the Nazi rise to power. After that, most dissenters fled or kept quiet. Even those who fled to places like the US kept quiet, they were seen with distrust on account of being German.

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Answer 8

The Nazi's imprisoned a lot of political dissidents/opponents in concentration camps. I'm sure many of them were killed as well as the millions of others.

Answer 9

yea they were locked in the concentration camps by hitler,
he was very cruel,
well his rubbish work was 1 sign that the nazis were going to be in trouble!

Answer 10

Yes, for example Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg. He fought against the NS-Regime and he wanted to kill Hitler with a bomb. But at the time when the bomb exploded, Hitler went to the toilet, the bomb failed. A few time later, Stauffenberg were shot by the SS.