One Last Stop….

The Tour of Resistance Continues!!!!

OPPRESSION IN EUROPELooking at the last part of the world!!!!

NAZI GERMANYThe abuses of a dictator….

Things We Know…

About Nazi Germany!!!

Those Commies!!!

• Nazi Party hated Communists

• Upon taking control, the Nazis imprisoned or executed most known Communists around the country.

Commie Resistance!!

• The German Communist Party (KPD) created…– Newspapers– Fliers– Pamphlets

• All done using an underground network

Jazz Youth and Swing Youth

• In response to attempts to indoctrinate all German teens to the war effort, subcultures rose up across the country!

“Harshest Penalties!!!”

• Jazz was strictly forbidden

• “Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS, suggested that all young people who listened to jazz music should be betean, given the severest of exercise, and then put to hard labor.”

Von Stauffenberg

Von Stauffenberg

• Born into a RICH aristocratic Catholic family

• von Stauffenberg was an officer in the Nazi army

• Von Stauffenberg organized a resistance group to plot the death of Hitler, Goering, and Himmler– Known as Operation

Valkyrie

Valkyrie!!!

Operation Valkyrie

• Didn’t work….

• Bombs didn’t go off together

• 4 died, Hitler lived….

• Von Stauffenberg executed…

At least he tried….

TO THE USSR!!!One last time!!!!

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Collectivization in U.S.S.R.

• As part of Stalin’s war effort, Stalin combined all farms in the U.S.S.R. into state run collective farms

– Believed this would produce higher crop and animal yields…

Soviet Peasants Resist!

• They stopped working….

• Crop and animal yields drop by the MILLIONS!!!!

• Soviet troops begin to starve on the front

That’ll teach him!!!

We won’t work!!!

now only if I had teeth to smile…

Stalin Angry!!!!ME

ANGRY!!!You don’t want to see me

ANGRY!!!

Angry Stalin!!!

• Roughly 2 million people die from the mass starvation that happens around the country due to lack of food

• Stalin responds by….

Tricks on them!!!

• 40 years later Soviet Russia falls!!!!!