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Het Duitse verzet tegen het nationaalsocialisme (Duits: Widerstand gegen der Nationalsozialismus) was de tegenstand die het Nazi-regime in eigen land ondervond gedurende hun periode van dictatuur tussen 1933 en 1945. Dit verzet kwam voor in zowel individueel- als in groepsverband en omvatte voornamelijk veel actief verzet. Zelfs werden er pogingen ondernomen om Adolf Hitler af te zetten of te liquideren.
Het Duitse verzet werd niet gezien als een collectieve verzetsbeweging tijdens de hoogtijdagen van het Nazi-regime. Dit, in tegenstelling tot meer gecoördineerde verzetsbewegingen zoals dit in onder meer Italië, Polen, Frankrijk en Nederland het geval was. De verzetsbeweging in Duitsland bestond uit kleine geïsoleerde groeperingen die
German resistance was not recognized as a collective united resistance movement during the height of Nazi Germany,[1] unlike the more coordinated Italian Resistance, Soviet partisans, Polish Underground State, Greek Resistance, Yugoslav Partisans, French Resistance, Dutch resistance, and Norwegian resistance movement. The German resistance consisted of small, isolated groups that were unable to mobilize widespread political opposition. Individual attacks on Nazi authority, sabotage, and the successful disclosure of information regarding Nazi armaments factories to Allies, as by the Austrian resistance group led by Heinrich Maier prevailed alongside this as well. One strategy was to persuade leaders of the Wehrmacht to stage a coup against the regime; the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler was intended to trigger such a coup.[1]
Approximately 77,000 German citizens were executed for one or another form of resistance by Special Courts, courts-martial, People's Courts 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 Nazi concentration camps who were either suspected of or actually engaged in opposition.[2] By contrast, the German historian Hans Mommsen wrote that resistance in Germany was "resistance without the people" and that the number of those Germans engaged in resistance to the Nazi regime was very small.[3] The resistance in Germany included German citizens of non-German ethnicity, such as members of the Polish minority who formed resistance groups like Olimp.[4]