HIST 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sophie Scholl, Heinrich Himmler, Rosenstrasse Protest
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Categories are comprehensive: labourers, managers, ordinary people, catholics, conservatives, young, old, students, soldiers, civil servants, protestants, communists; resistance was widespread and permeated all social strata and persuasions it was widespread but not numerous. 1938 but he told hitler that there weren"t any hitler threatened to use the sa, ss and police to occupy austria and so beck went back to his office and drew up plans". The austrians were not going to fight (had already been settled) the chief of the. Beck tried everything to prevent war on czechoslovakia, and on the 4th of august. 1938 he tried to organise a coup by getting commander in chief brauchitsch to read a memorandum that said that the army would refuse to obey hitler"s orders to invade. He didn"t read it all and failed to support the chief of general staff he was in.