A resistance is a force that does not accept orders and refuses to obey. Resistance in the Holocaust did take place. Non-Jewish people did fight back against the Nazi Party and reject their views. During this time, many people turned their back on Jews without knowing the full consequences of their actions. We remember the resistance because it shows that when genocide was committed, humans still had ethics and the bravery to fight back. The Resistance can be described through when it began and how, what kinds of people and groups fought, and what acts did the resistance commit. In the 1940s, the second world war broke out and several countries were occupied by Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party. The …show more content…
Members and group came from all places with different opinions. Communists and Socialist, for example, were part of the resistance but kept their own political beliefs at the same time. Often, people who were considered Nazis, since they were not Jewish and pretended to support Hitler, made assassination plans and attempts towards Hitler. One example of an assassination attempt that occurred was “In July 1944 a group of German army officers and diplomats plotted to kill Hitler. A bomb placed by Colonel von Stauffenberg exploded in a room where Hitler was holding a meeting but he survived without serious injury. the plotters committed suicide or were rounded up, tortured, and executed” (Grant 114). This statement proves that other non-Jewish resistance groups resided in the Nazi Party. Underground resistance groups existed in many occupied countries such as Denmark, France, and Europe. Some groups were more prominent at the time such as a group that was known as the Partisans. The Partisans occurred at the time in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Greece. Other well known resistance groups were recognized for their achievements such as the “most successful European resistance group were the Yugoslav Partisans, organized by the Communist Party Leader Tito and grew to 150,000 members” (Kindersley 16). Europe’s resistance …show more content…
The resistance started as simple acts from unorganized individuals and moved to be groups from countries that sabotaged Nazis. The fact that during some of the worst years of war, ordinary people made a difference and decided to do what they thought was right makes the non-Jewish resistance even more significant. The resistance can be broken down into three parts of how the resistance formed from single persons acts of rebellion to groups. Then how many groups there were and what they stood for. Finally, the last section describes acts did the rebellion commit against the