World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a conflict that involved basically every part of the world during the years of 1939-1945. The Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan - they were considered the ‘bad team’) were opposed by the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and to a lesser extent, China - they were considered the ‘good team’). The forty to fifty million deaths that incurred as a result of the war make it the bloodiest conflict and the largest war in human history. This report will discuss Nazi Germany during WWII and the resistance to Hitler and his ideology inside Nazi Germany.
Marked by the German invasion of Poland, this initiated WWII and the beginning of Nazi Germany. This was led by the Nazi Party, also known as the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, which was a political party of the mass movement known as National Socialism. Under Adolf
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This ultimately impacted the German people’s thinking and access to certain rights. During that time, Hitler and the Nazi party managed to influence most of the German population to believe in the Nazi’s racist ideology which was to reorganise the world by making those of German descent the ‘superior race’.
In Nazi Germany, not everyone agreed with Hitler and his ideology. However, the Germans in general (Nazi and non-Nazi Germans) genuinely believed that Germany was fighting for its freedom, and even, to some extent, for its own existence. Most Germans accepted the basic idea of the government, which includes the isolation of German Jews.
While most Germans knew about the Holocaust, with some potentially helping the Nazis in the persecution of Jews, they almost certainly did not endorse mass murder. Although none of the German resistance groups were able to be mobilised, certain individuals did not support Hitler’s ideology and attacked Nazi