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t. e. The German resistance to Nazism (German: Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus) included unarmed and armed opposition and disobedience to the Nazi regime by various movements, groups and individuals by various means, from attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler or to overthrow his regime, defection to the enemies of the Third Reich and ...
Love of order. Attachment to order, bureaucracy, organisation and planning is a stereotype of German culture. Germany is perceived to have an abundance of rules (for example, copyright trolls often come from Germany) and Germans are generalized as enjoying obeying them. [11] Jerome K. Jerome 's novel Three Men on the Bummel makes fun of the ...
Anti-German sentiment (also known as anti-Germanism, Germanophobia or Teutophobia) is opposition to and/or fear of, hatred of, dislike of, persecution of, prejudice against, and discrimination against Germany, its inhabitants, its culture, and/or its language. [1] Its opposite is Germanophilia. [2][3]
The hunger-winter of 1947, thousands protest against the disastrous food situation (March 31, 1947). American food policy in occupied Germany refers to the food supply policies enacted by the U.S., and to some extent its Allies, in the western occupation zones of Germany in the first two years of the ten-year postwar occupation of Western ...
Nazi Germany. Knowledge of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany is a recurrent historical issue. The precise number of people who knew of the Final Solution is unknown. The larger population were at least acutely aware of the Nazi Party's anti-Semitism, if not advocates of the movement themselves.
The German collective guilt for the events of the Holocaust has long been an idea that has been pondered by famous and well-known German politicians and thinkers. In addition to those mentioned previously, German author and philosopher Bernhard Schlink describes how he sometimes feels as if being German is a huge burden, due to the country's past.
1933 anti-Nazi boycott. A matchbook cover issued by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to advertise the boycott. The anti-Nazi boycott was an international boycott of German products in response to violence and harassment by members of Adolf Hitler 's Nazi Party against Jews following his appointment as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.
The whaler on HMS Sheffield being manned with an armed boarding party to check a neutral vessel stopped at sea, 20 Oct 1941. The Blockade of Germany (1939–1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire and by France in order to restrict the supplies of minerals, fuel, metals, food and textiles needed by Nazi Germany – and ...