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What happened to the Germans who disagreed with the Nazi's beliefs?

During WW2.

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  • 9 years ago
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    German Jehovah's Witnesses disagreed with the Nazi beliefs and refused to serve Hitler. For their Christian stance, they were put into the camps and thousands were put to death. All they had to do was sign a piece of paper and they would have been set free. Others that claimed to be Christians served Hitler and went to war and slaughtered millions of others who also claimed to be Christian. Many German Catholic leaders in Germany were on record as supporters of Hitler.

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    4 years ago

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  • 9 years ago

    They would either be put in a concentration camp and be used as slave labour or they would be murdered. It would depend on who they were.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I'll try to cover as much as I know about and can verify.

    Noting the Germans had a camp system that included Concentration camps, Forced Labour Camps, and Extermination Camps - each dealing with an entirely different population we're going with political prisoners exclusively - as opposed to the Holocaust or anything unrelated.

    "Disagreeing with the NAZI's belief" could be anything from high treason to having an anti-war leaflet in your pocket, having a crucifix on the wall of a public building, or listening to an illegal radio station eg the BBC.

    "The White Rose (German: die Weiße Rose) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor. The group became known for an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943, that called for active opposition to dictator Adolf Hitler's regime.

    The six most recognized members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo and beheaded in 1943"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose

    If any German citizen was suspicious of anyone else, they would go to the local Gestapo office and fill out of form 'renouncing' that person reporting suspicious behavior. The Gestapo in turn would visit that person in the middle of the night, they'd basicall 'disappear' ended up at the police station or interrogation centre. Sometimes merely questioned, sometimes severely beaten or tortured - the ones deemed innocent were released; the ones deemed guilty went to a Concentration Camp.

    Concentration Camps eg 'Dachau' began appearing in the 1930s and held exclusively poltical prisoners. The guards were brutal, some died definately, but many were released after being 're-educated and rehabilitated'

    The inmates comrised the following:

    Red triangle—political prisoners: liberals, communists, trade unionists, royalists, social democrats and socialists, Freemasons, anarchists.

    Green triangle— "professional criminals" (convicts, often Kapos).

    Blue triangle—foreign forced laborers, emigrants.

    Purple triangle—Bible Students, a term taken from a name of, and primarily referring to, Jehovah's Witnesses, though a very small number of pacifists and members of other religious organizations were also imprisoned under this classification

    Pink triangle—sexual offenders, mostly homosexual men but rarely rapists, zoophiles and paedophiles.

    Black triangle—people who were deemed "asocial elements" and "work shy" including

    - Roma (Gypsies), who were later assigned a brown triangle

    - The mentally ill

    - Alcoholics

    - Vagrants and beggars

    - Pacifists

    - Conscription resisters

    - Prostitutes

    - Some anarchists

    - Drug addicts

    Brown triangle—Roma (Gypsies) (previously wore the black triangle).

    Uninverted red triangle—an enemy POW, spy or a deserter.

    People who wore the green and pink triangles were convicted in criminal courts and may have been transferred to the criminal prison systems after the camps were liberated.

    Worse case senario:

    "Approximately 77,000 German citizens were killed for one or another form of resistance by Special Courts, courts martial, and the civil justice system. Many of these Germans had served in government, the military, or in civil positions, which enabled them to engage in subversion and conspiracy; in addition the Canadian historian Peter Hoffman counts unspecified "tens of thousands" in concentration camps who were either suspected or actually engaged in opposition"

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Resistance_to_...

    A pic of Sophie Scholl, she and her brother were students at Munich University.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Whit...

    She was one of the "six most recognized members of the group" die Weiße Rose as described above.

  • 9 years ago

    They became Political prisoners

  • 9 years ago

    I believe anyone, German or not.. who disagreed with the Nazi's beliefs were tortured just as much as the Jewish, if they could slaughter hundreds and thousands of innocent Jewish people out of cruelty, i'm certain they wouldn't have hesitated to do the same to "one of their own"

  • 9 years ago

    Many like communists were beaten on the streets by 'Brown Shirts' in the 1930's. By war time they were sent to the concentration/extermination camps along with Jews, Homosexuals, Jehovah witnesses, Gypsies and other people they didn't like enough to leave be.

  • 9 years ago

    Alot of people who were considered political criminals in Germany were decapitated. More people were guillotined by Germany during world war 2 then during the French Revolution

  • 9 years ago

    Put in prison, labor camps or murdered.

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