Talk:Widerstand

This page title is inappropriate. In German, "Widerstand" means just "resistance" without much political connotation. The page belongs to German resistance movement or perhaps to political resistance agains Nazism, but "Widerstand" should be a dictionary entry at best. Kosebamse 13:17, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)


 * Political resistance against Nazism is better investigated under Appeasement as within Germany  political resistance was impossible after the Enabling Act of 1933 (see 1932 references to Zentrum party and the Concordat 1933 in page  for Pope Pius XII ). Widerstand seems to be the short-hand used in the German academic world  that releases studies of the  military and society (aristocratic and religious)  plots during the Nazi era 1933- 1945 . Since visible dissent was not tolerated , only under-ground printing could have actually 'hit the street'. The  German Underground Movements should be the term to cover student and workers' level plots and struggle . In religious terms  the acceptance of Nazism  can  be seen in an even-handed manner - both  the Catholic and the Protestant Churches seem to be culpable , though the latter 's increasing subjugation of individual will pre-dates this period and is considered a factor . Papal  attitudes are still being defended  and are complicated to read because of the change of Popes and the heavy hand of Cardinal Pacelli (as Secretary of State) before he ascended to the Papacy in 1939. The Papal Concordat  with  the Nazis was designed to castrate the influence of Priests , who were disbarred thereafter from holding civil office  and thereby exercising  serious  street-level resistance. .The military-plot histories    are turgid  but their conclusions are important  as revealing factors of ideology which  ,like the religious , throw light on the period , but again the mentalities of the players are rooted in  earlier periods and ideologies . A general militarism in the field of Education  since the previous century coupled with the terms of the Versailles agreement  after the loss of the First War , are the principal factors  within the civil and the military society .  Appeasement  as a field of study and awareness has always defined the British and French Governments actions in  Munich in 1938  ,  however the subject should not be limited to that . American political attitudes  should be as much a part of the  field as the  purely religious and come more under what should be termed Industrial Appeasement which could usefully include  all nations  having business with German Industry . It should be noted that at no point were such industrial  interests in any  country brought to account .  The control  of the media  and the poisoning  of minds  thereby are the principal  lesson from the period according to Speer , Hitler's architect and minister for Armaments , though the results of the industrial appeasement could  be seen as providing  real imbalance in world society today .   Flamekeeper 19:32, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)