TIME TO FORM A RESISTANCE NETWORK TO SABOTAGE PRESIDENT HITLER AND HIS NEO THIRD REICH

 

I'm done despairing over the election results. No one ever defeated a dictator by despair. We need to form a united network of resistance fighters like they did in Europe after Hitler seized power. This does not mean staging a 911-type terrorism, but actively engaging in acts of nonviolent political defiance. President Hitler needs to know we will actively push back on his Fascist agenda. 

We can learn a lot by previous heroic women and men who defied Hitler in their own way. This includes:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Protestant theologian whose opposition to National Socialism eventually led to his execution. Two days after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Bonhoeffer took to the radio and denounced the Nazis, accusing them of being a dictatorship and anti-Semitic. He was cut off before he could finish.

Sophie and Hans Scholl were students in Munich, where they founded the White Rose. This resistance group distributed thousands of leaflets condemning the actions of the Nazi government and raised awareness about the ongoing genocide.

Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen was a Roman Catholic bishop of Münster, Germany. Owing to the Nazi regime’s anti-Catholic propaganda and racism, von Galen quickly became an influential critic of the Nazis. 

Die Swing Youth was a collection of like-minded teenagers across cities in Germany, Austria, and other countries in Europe who shared a love of jazz music and British and American pop culture and a hatred of German nationalism, military regulation, and uniformity. The first ‘Swing Cliques’ originated in Hamburg, Berlin, and Frankfurt in 1935-6. During the first years of the war, the liberal, non-conformist Swingjugend movement developed into a protest against the Nazi state’s authoritarianism. It escalated, with its members refusing to join relevant Nazi youth groups or serve in the military.

Wilhelm Franz Canaris (1887 – 1945) Head of the German Abwher, Canaris was a long-term opponent of Hitler’s rule. He promoted resistance and tried to work with the Allies to bring about Hitler’s downfall.