Resistance

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Resistance in Occupied France

It is important to understand acts of resistance which took place in Nazi-occupied territories.

Occupied France

German soldiers stole food and property from French people. Swastikas were put up everywhere.
German men were moved to Germany to work on forced labour camps.
70,000 French Jews are estimated to have been killed in death camps in Eastern Europe.

Daily resistance

Many French people listened to BBC radio or tried to support resistance fighters.

Active resistance

Active resistance involved actively harming the Nazi party and its regime.
Resistance members or fighters would be executed. The Nazis constructed an execution chamber in the former French Ministry of Aviation in Paris for executions.

What did the 'French Resistance' do?

In June 1944, the resistance fighters, called the French Interior Force, joined and fought with the Allies to defeat the Nazis.

Resistance to Nazi Rule in Other Countries

Resistance to Nazi rule did not just take place in France, but in other countries too.

Poland

The Polish Underground State was a resistance movement that was loyal to the Polish government in London.
They and many other Poles hid Jews and other people destined for death camps in their houses.
Historians think that Polish resistance supporters saved 450,000 lives during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

The Bielski partisans

The Bielski partisans were a group of Jewish people who lived in the forest in Poland (now Belarus). They helped Jews escape the ghettos or transport to death camps. - By the end of the war, there were 1,200 Bielski partisans.

1Dictatorship

1.1Hitler & The Nazi Party in 1933

1.1.1The Origins of the Nazi Party

1.1.2Hitler & The Growth of the Party

1.1.3The 1932 Election

1.2Establishing Dictatorship, 1933-1934

1.2.1Establishing Dictatorship

1.2.2Achieving Total Power, July 1933 - August 1934

1.2.3End of Topic Test - Dictatorship

1.2.4Grade 9 - Dictatorship

2Control & Opposition

2.1The Machinery of Terror

2.1.1Police State & Legal System

2.1.2The Gestapo & SS

2.1.3Concentration Camps

2.1.4End of Topic Test - Control & Opposition

2.2Nazi Propaganda

2.2.1The Effectiveness of Nazi Propaganda

2.3Opposition to Nazi Rule

2.3.1The Left

2.3.2Church Leaders

2.3.3Youth Groups

2.3.4Support for Nazi Rule

2.3.5End of Topic Test - Propaganda & Opposition

2.3.6Grade 9 - Propaganda & Opposition

3Changing Lives, 1933-1939

3.1Work & Home

3.1.1Work

3.1.2Home

3.2The Lives of Young People

3.2.1Education

3.2.2Youth Movements

3.3Nazi Racial Policy

3.3.1Racial Policy

3.3.2Persecution of the Jews

3.3.3End of Topic Test 0 Changing Lives

3.3.4Grade 9 - Changing Lives

4Germany in War

4.1The Impact of War

4.1.1Impact of the War Economy on the People

4.1.2Impact of Total War on the People

4.2Growing Opposition from the German People

4.2.1Opposition from the People

4.2.2Opposition from the Army

4.2.3End of Topic Test - Germany in War

4.2.4Grade 9 - Germany in War

5Occupation

5.1Nazi Rule in Eastern and Western Europe

5.1.1The Start of World War 2

5.1.2Western Europe

5.1.3Eastern Europe

5.1.4End of Topic Test - Occupation

5.2The Final Solution

5.2.1Ghettos & Executions

5.2.2Death Camps

5.2.3End of Topic Test - The Final Solution

5.3Responses to Nazi Rule

5.3.1Collaboration

5.3.2Accommodation

5.3.3Resistance

5.3.4End of Topic Test - Responses to Nazi Rule

5.3.5Grade 9 - Occupation

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