anti-Nazi resistance
Fighting the Reich
Anti-Nazi resistance refers to opposition movements against Hitler's regime and Nazi ideology, both within Germany and in occupied territories during World War II.
This includes armed resistance fighters, underground networks, sabotage operations, and efforts to shelter Jews and other persecuted groups: The French anti-Nazi resistance helped Allied forces after D-Day.
The term also applies to contemporary opposition to neo-Nazi movements.
- spiesSecret intelligence gatherers
- secret codesEncrypted information systems
- partisansStaunch factional supporters
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- propaganda leafletsPrinted sheets spreading ideology
guerrillas · banned literature · protest songs · safe houses · hiding places · codebreakers · rescue missions · escape routes · underground newspapers · sabotage · cryptographers · double agents · opposition leaders · freedom fighters · intelligence networks · forged documents · false papers · death sentences
anti-Nazi resistancecollaboration
Joint intellectual work
Gestapo · fascism · quislings · fifth column · Hitler Youth
anti-Nazi resistancecomplicity
Shared criminal involvement
perpetration · collaboration · war crimes · genocide · crimes against humanity
anti-Nazi resistanceNazi regime
Hitler's totalitarian German state
Third Reich · Nazi Germany · Adolf Hitler · Joseph Goebbels · Adolf Eichmann
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