Military Sociology - Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Conscientious Objector, Military Use of Children, Military Dictatorship, German Resistance (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: Posttraumatic stress disorder, Conscientious objector, Military use of children, Military dictatorship, German resistance, Military brat, Military service, Civil-military relations, Commander-in-chief, Civilian control of the military, Schwarze Kapelle, Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy, Red Hand Day, Military expression, Dissent by Military Officers and Enlisted Personnel, Mary Edwards Wertsch, Militarization, Militant use of children in Sri Lanka, Military government, Khakistocracy, Center on Conscience & War, Compulsory Military Training in New Zealand, Standing army, Conscription crisis, Stratocracy, Unrooted Childhoods, SLUC, Fiscal-military state, Military volunteer, Military rule, Military humanism, The Garrison State, Central Military Commission. Excerpt: The German resistance (Widerstand) was the opposition by individuals and groups in Germany to the National Socialist regime between 1933 and 1945. Some of these engaged in active plans to remove Hitler from power and overthrow his regime. Their plans culminated in the unsuccessful 20th July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. The term German resistance should not be understood as meaning that there was a united resistance movement in Germany at any time during the Nazi period, analogous to the more coordinated Polish Underground State, French Resistance, and Italian Resistance. The German resistance consisted of small and usually isolated groups. They were unable to mobilize political opposition, and their only real 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. Approximately 77,000 German citizens were killed for one or another form of resistance by Special Courts, courts martial, and the civil justice system. Many of the...