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Conformity and resistance Week 12
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Youth for the Führer ‘Co-ordination’ of education system ‘Politically unreliable’ teachers sacked. Curriculum brought into line with Nazi ideology. Youth Organizations: Deutsches Jungvolk (German Young People, DJ) – Boys aged 10-14. Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) – Boys aged 14-18. Jungmädelbund (League of Young Girls) – Girls aged 10-14. Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls, BDM) – Girls aged 14-18.
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Highways and people’s car
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Strength through joy – holiday scheme (KdF, Kraft durch Freude) Unfinished massive project at the island of Ruegen
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Ernst Röhm, 1887-1934 With Himmler and Daluege, 1933
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Heinrich Himmler Reichsführer SS and Chief of Police SS LeibstandarteWaffen SSTotenkopfverbände Ordnungspolizei (order police) Municipal police Sipo Security Police (Heydrich) Kripo Criminal Police Gestapo Secret state police SD Security Service (Heydrich) Foreign intelligence Domestic intelligence Organization of the Nazi Police Apparatus (simplified)
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Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942)
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Organization of the Reich Security Main Office
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Headquarters of the RSHA and the Gestapo Today the site of the Topography of Terror
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Concentration camps in Nazi Germany Theresienstadt was a ghetto and does not belong here
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Conformity
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Complicity Buying Jewish stuff at Action 3: Gentiles buying items from Jewish property after the owners have been deported Looking away when people deported Moving into empty Jewish apartments Profiting from aryanization Many people who were inside anti-Nazi still were functioning members of the system and went to the East to run the colonization and destruction of Jews Complicity Denunciations what all is denounced Important: leeway people had How politicized everyday decisions became importance of the everyday life and thus also microhistory
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Resistance “I want you to know: there were no nameless heroes; it was people, who had names, faces, longing, and hopes, and therefore their pain even of the smallest among them was no lesser than of the first among those whose name we know. I want that they always stay close to you, as friends, as relatives, as yourselves.” Julius Fučík from prison, 1943
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Else and Otto Hampel, executed April 1943
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August Landmesser, 1910-1944
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Landmesser and his family
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Liselotte Herrmann, 1909-1938
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