Political Opponents to the Nazis

Political Opponents to the Nazi Regime


Between 1933 and 1945, a variety of groups offered resistance to the Nazis. Among the earliest opponents of Nazism in Germany were Communists, Socialists, and trade union leaders.

Locating sources for such a group of opponents has been particularly difficult mainly due to the fact that they were dealt with in a very effective manner. Spreading of political ideas around this time was also mainly word of mouth and little or no sources exist to show this other than the SOPADE reports shown below (referring to factory workers and small group meetings)

The communists
The Reichstag was burned on the 27 February. A leading Communist was arrested and beheaded for the crime. Hitler used this as an excuse to make people belief in a communist uprising. The King then suspends civil rights, supposedly temporarily. However, it was continued until 1945.
The Sturmabteilung or SA was founded, with Hitler at its head, as a private Para-military force, ...