HIS 3314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hossbach Memorandum, Benito Mussolini, Anschluss

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 3314
• Professor: Serge Durflinger

Document Summary

There was resistance in germany to hitler, specifically from communities that felt threatened by him and his policies: Hitler also faced opposition from the christian denominations (catholics) and the protestants. Unlike others, they were a little more timid in their opposition had a very wait-and-see approach. Their opposition was heavily stifled by hitler with priests being sent to dachau which had originally been intended for opposition, not the jews. Hitler also ran into opposition within the leadership of the german military. They resented him personally and they were afraid because they believed hitler was taking the country to war once again and they were not ready for that. The german high command was specifically afraid of france. In 1933, hitler announced that all treaties (versailles, Locarno) would be reviewed saying that his new government was not bound by them. At the time, france and britain didn"t know much about.