Nazi opposition


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To those who ever thought that no-one spoke out against the Nazi Party until Germany started losing the war:

Has it never occurred to you that when you see propaganda everywhere, especially from a young age, your head has a really good chance of getting filled with it until you actually start to believe it?

Have you really never heard of cases when people believe in the ideals they think the party stands for, and then slowly come to realise the truth?

And, how can you act up or speak out against a totalitarian government when they have their soldiers and their secret police everywhere, most of which is made up of thugs and bullies (as history proves)?

Actually try to imagine what it's like living in a country where people's opinions are determined by mass propaganda and fear of being beaten up or even killed, especially when your country has gone through over a decade of hard times and there seems to be a promise of everything becoming alright again.

And, to the idea that no-one complained while Germany was winning, look up Leaflet No. 4 of the White Rose, when it mentions Hitler's recent victory in Africa and Russia, see what they have to say then.

https://dieweisserose.weebly.com/the-fourth-leaflet.html

What's ironic about all of this, is that both Hans and Sophie had been involved in the Hitler Youth and the League of the German Maidens, and in fact, were the leaders of their squadron. Their other siblings were involved as well (there were 5 children, not including Thea, who died when she was a baby).

All 5 of them enjoyed the trips, the outdoor exercises and the tests of courage. They were young, easily convinced. But they begun to become disillusioned with the ideals of the Nazi Party long before the war even started.

They are proof of that, in spite of what many thought in their belief for the government, over time came to realize what it really stood for and what it really meant. Everyone says they were outraged by what the SS were doing, particularly to the Jewish population. And Christoph Probst never sided with the Party. Let's not forget he wrote the draft for the 7th pamphlet.

https://www.whiterose-bca.com/whiterose-leaflet7

Nazis are like bullies in the playground: agree or be tormented; if not, tortured and be branded as an outcast to everyone surrounding you. It is the same with any totalitarian government, extreme right or extreme left.

The Scholl's and Probst reflected the views of many Germans. Unfortunately, to be living in Nazi Germany... meant that thoughts and ideas, facts and convictions were quashed. Too many Germans (and people around the world too) did not speak up against the Nazis... or else so many people would have been spared.

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Leni Reistaffel and Josef Goebbels are arguably the two greatest propagandists in history. They certainly wrote the texts for those of any persuasion who followed them. There is a popular misunderstanding that propaganda is a lie. That is not so. Propaganda is information that promulgates a propagandist’s position on an issue. The best propaganda is therefore the truth; but it may not be the whole truth. A complete lie is hollow. A partial truth can be seductive. I want to thank you, twinA, for your topic. As a German-American, I have been ashamed of my parent nation for its atrocities and crimes against humanity under the Third Reich. I have also known there were good and decent Germans who opposed those evils, and who objected to the Nazis calling themselves Christian Democrats, because The Lord has nothing to do with those demons on earth.

Not for nothing, folks: remember that Hitler’s best generals tried to kill him because they knew he was insane and was taking The Fatherland to damnation.

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Marshall McLuhan once wrote, "The medium is the message." The allure the Nazis held over the populace through the use of the latest technologies: short reel videos and radio signals, captivated audiences to social lengths not spurred like any time beforehand in such a rapid-fire, sudden way.

The Nazis' investments to drain the communication gulf which existed for centuries between the independent German states could be seen quite plainly, even in the most rural of townships. The German people felt connected and heard. The lockdown on foreign media made exposure to differing points of view virtually impossible without breaking law. During wartime, listening in on the BBC radio broadcast was a criminal offense liable for punishment. Children were encouraged to tell Nazi Party officials everything they knew about their parents at all kinds of social events, leading to the breakdown of the German family.

We often look back on the past thinking what could have been done differently with the things we know now when we ask the question. What is often overlooked, however, is that we would be robbing ourselves of the experience we gain from events, times, and places we lived which, in turn, make us who we are today.

Think about the overview effect, the cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from outer space. Consider what Astronaut Michael Collins of Apollo 11, had to say:

"The thing that really surprised me was that it [Earth] projected an air of fragility. And why, I don’t know. I don’t know to this day. I had a feeling it’s tiny, it’s shiny, it’s beautiful, it’s home, and it’s fragile.”

He didn't see divisions of people based on nationalities, *religions (see note below), races, and creeds. He saw we were all in this together, that we are not so different from each other after all at our very essence. Humanity is the underlying bond which we share a common cause in. Great things we can accomplish together happen in trust.

*While all faiths are a religion in and of themselves, there's more to each them than being just their perspective religion. Religions should unify, not divide.

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Yes, there were many good Germans back in those days but the first war was such a humiliating loss and times were desperate in the early 20's, got a little better for awhile, and then a complete collapse after the depression. Hitler became the sane choice and his potential was limitless.
He single-handedly brought Germany out of economic ruin, took back all the land lost in WWI, and made many, if not most, Germans proud again. If only he would have stopped right there but unfortunately he was a man who, as a child, was beaten and traumatized by his father so badly only his mother could protect him. Thus his brain was so dysfunctional he became to believe the conventional wisdom that Germany had been stabbed in the back by the Jews and Bolsheviks in WWI.
The biggest crime against the German people was that ever increasing propaganda campaign run by Goebbels starting in 1933, it was an extremely methodical and diabolical brainwashing technique that virtually no one could resist. It's easy to blame Hitler or Himmler or Geobbels or the German people but the real truth is a perfect storm of tragic events caused Germany to lash back in the way they did.
Right now there are genocides being committed by Governments and Big Corporations and hardly anyone notices nor are they willing to accept this when told the truth. In other words, virtually nothing has changed since early last century.

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"Leni Reistaffel " doesn't exist!

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