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WWII Resistance Movements

WWII Resistance Movements. French Resistance Movement. Sabotage, espionage, guerrilla tactics all were used Charles DeGaulle : Resistance leader in Great Britain Jean Moulin: Helped to unify the various French resistance movements. Partisans of Yugoslavia. Josef Tito : Most successful

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WWII Resistance Movements

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  1. WWII Resistance Movements

  2. French Resistance Movement

  3. Sabotage, espionage, guerrilla tactics all were used • Charles DeGaulle: Resistance leader in Great Britain • Jean Moulin: Helped to unify the various French resistance movements

  4. Partisans of Yugoslavia • Josef Tito : Most successful • @70,000 resistance fighters • Tito’s fighters so successful that Germans put a reward out for Tito’s death • Tito will become leader of Yugoslavia but goes against Stalin after WWII

  5. White Rose • The Group coordinated efforts on Campus for Civil Rights and Opposition to Nazi policies. Among their efforts on campus were weekly discussion groups, painting 'freedom' on brick walls at the entrance into campus, and distributing leaflets opposing the Reich on moral and political grounds, encouraging students to think for themselves.

  6. Individuals • Raoul Wallenberg(Swedish) • Certificates of Protection • For Jews in Budapest and set • Over 30 safe houses • Helped save 1000s of Jews

  7. Martin Niemöller: • First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Socialist. • Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Trade Unionist. • Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--Because I was not a Jew. • Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.

  8. prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.

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