Editing Gestapo (section)

===Student opposition===
Between June 1942 and March 1943, student protests were calling for an end to the Nazi regime. These included the non-violent resistance of [[Hans Scholl|Hans]] and [[Sophie Scholl]], two leaders of the [[White Rose]] student group.{{sfn|McDonough|2005|pp=21–29}} However, resistance groups and those who were in moral or political opposition to the Nazis were stalled by the fear of reprisals from the Gestapo. Fearful of an internal overthrow, the forces of the Gestapo were unleashed on the opposition. Groups like the [[White Rose]] and others, such as the [[Edelweiss Pirates]], and the [[Swing Youth]], were placed under close Gestapo observation. Some participants were sent to concentration camps. Leading members of the most famous of these groups, the White Rose, were arrested by the police and turned over to the Gestapo. For several leaders the punishment was death.{{sfn|Williamson|2002|pp=118–119}} During the first five months of 1943, the Gestapo arrested thousands suspected of resistance activities and carried out numerous executions. Student opposition leaders were executed in late February, and a major opposition organisation, the [[Hans Oster|Oster Circle]], was destroyed in April 1943.{{sfn|Delarue|2008|p=318}} Efforts to resist the Nazi regime amounted to very little and had only minor chances of success, particularly since a broad percentage of the German people did not support such actions.{{sfn|Johnson|1999|p=306}}