Description
Book Synopsis Rather than being accepted by all of German society, the Nazi regime was resisted in both passive and active forms. This re-issued volume examines opposition to National Socialism by Germans during the Third Reich in its broadest sense. It considers individual and organized nonconformity, opposition, and resistance ranging from symbolic acts of disobedience to organized assassination attempts, and looks at how disparate groups such as the Jewish community, churches, conservatives, communists, socialists, and the military all defied the regime in their own ways.
Trade Review “…a compilation of twenty learned and erudite articles. The result is a masterwork of impeccable and impressive scholarship. Germans Against Nazism is a core and essential addition to academic library 20th-Century German History reference collections in general, and Nazi History supplemental studies reading lists in particular.” · Midwest Book Review
“The relationship between National Socialism and Resistance is a key to understanding the Third Reich, hence it is necessary to understand the resistance in all its complexity, to approach the reality of the Third Reich as closely as possible. This book can help us doing so.” · Francia
“Twenty authors have successfully joined forces in this work, which is characterized by a remarkable breadth of subject matter, originality, and archival research.” · Central European History
“Together, they are impressive evidence of the scope and vitality of the history of resistance and of its complexity. One paradox emerges: there is general agreement with Peter Hoffmann's view that German resistance was limited to the exceptional few who operated in a hostile environment.” · English Historical Review
“As the title also makes clear, while Peter Hoffmann's work is most famous for dealing with resistance action by Germany's social elites, this volume recognizes no such limitations.” · The Historical Journal
Table of Contents List of Tables
Preface
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Peter Hoffmann’s Bibliography since 1990
Chapter 1. Introduction: Resistance to National Socialism in the
Work of Peter Hoffmann
Francis R. Nicosia
Chapter 2. Surveillance and Disobedience: Aspects of the
Political Policing of Nazi Germany
Robert Gellately
Chapter 3. Conservative Opposition to Nazism in Eutin,
Schleswig-Holstein, 1932-1933
Lawrence D. Stokes
Chapter 4. Self-Defence against Fascism in a Middle-Class
Community: The Jews in Weimar Germany and Beyond
Arnold Paucker
Chapter 5. Jewish Resistance to Nazi Racial Legislation in
Silesia, 1933-1937
Karol Jonca
Chapter 6. Between Pacifism and Patriotism - A Protestant
Dilemma: The Case of Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze
John S. Conway
Chapter 7. A Radical Minority: Resistance in the German
Protestant Church
Robert P. Ericksen
Chapter 8. Catholic Resistance to Biological and Racist
Eugenics in the Third Reich
Donald Dietrich
Chapter 9. Social Unrest and the Response of the Nazi Regime,
1934-1936
Ian Kershaw
Chapter 10. Peasants and Workers in their Environment:
Nonconformity and Opposition to National
Socialism in the Austrian Alps
Ernst Hanisch
Chapter 11. Social Democratic Resistance Against Hitler and the
European Tradition of Underground Movements
William Sheridan Allen
Chapter 12. Dutch Contacts with the Resistance in Germany
Ger van Roon
Chapter 13. The National-Conservatives and Opposition to the
Third Reich before the Second World War
Leonidas E. Hill
Chapter 14. Between England and Germany: Adam von Trott's
Contacts with the British
Henry O. Malone
Chapter 15. Waiting for Action: The Debate on the 'Other
Germany' in Great Britain and the Reaction of the
Foreign Office to German 'Peace-feelers', 1942
Rainer A. Blasius
Chapter 16. German Soldiers in the 1938 Munich Crisis
Harold C. Deutsch
Chapter 17. Individual Loyalty and Resistance in the German Military: The Case of Sub-Lieutenant Oskar Kusch
Heinrich Walle
Chapter 18. 'Resistance' to 'No Surrender': Popular Disobedience in Wurttemberg in 1945
Jill Stephenson
Chapter 19. The Uses of Remembrance: The Legacy of the
Communist Resistance in the German Democratic
Republic
Eve Rosenhaft
Chapter 20. Conclusion: How Far Could the German Resistance
Have Changed the Course of History?
Michael Balfour
Contributors
Bibliography
Selected Works since 1990
Index
