Germans Against Nazism: Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoffmann

Published by Berghahn Books 2015

Germans Against Nazism

Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoffmann

Edited by: Francis R. Nicosia and Lawrence D. Stokes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782388166

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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.

Author / Editor information

Francis R. Nicosia is Professor of History and Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Nazi Germany and the Arab World (2014) and Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany (2008, 2010), and the coauthor of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (2000).

Lawrence D. Stokes (1940-2007) was Emeritus Professor of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He edited Kleinstadt und Nationalsozialismus: Ausgewählte Dokumente zur Geschichte von Eutin 1918-1945 (1984), and Der Eutiner Dichterkreis und der Nationalsozialismus 1936-1945: Eine Dokumentation (2001).

Francis R. Nicosia is Professor of History and Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Nazi Germany and the Arab World (2014) and Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany (2008, 2010), and the coauthor of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (2000).

Reviews

“…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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Preface to the Paperback Edition Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Peter Hoffman’s Bibliography since 1990 Publicly Available Download PDF	XXI
1 Introduction: Resistance to National Socialism in the Work of Peter Hoffmann Francis R. Nicosia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Surveillance and Disobedience: Aspects of the Political Policing of Nazi Germany Robert Gellately Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3 Conservative Opposition to Nazism in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, 1932-1933 Lawrence D. Stokes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
4 Self-Defence Against Fascism in a Middle-Class Community: The Jews in Weimar Germany and Beyond Arnold Paucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
5 Jewish Resistance to Nazi Racial Legislation in Silesia, 1933-1937 Karol Jonca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
6 Between Pacifism and Patriotism — A Protestant Dilemma: The Case of Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze John S. Conway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
7 A Radical Minority: Resistance in the German Protestant Church Robert P. Ericksen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
8 Catholic Resistance to Biological and Racist Eugenics in the Third Reich Donald Dietrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
9 Social Unrest and the Response o f the Nazi Regime, 1934-1936 Ian Kershaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
10 Peasants and Workers in their Environment: Nonconformity and Opposition to National Socialism in the Austrian Alps Ernst Hanisch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
11 Social Democratic Resistance Against Hitler and the European Tradition o f Underground Movements William Sheridan Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
12 Dutch Contacts with the Resistance in Germany Ger van Roon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
13 The National-Conservatives and Opposition to the Third Reich before the Second World War Leonidas E. Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
14 Between England and Germany: Adam von Trott’s Contacts with the British Henry O. Malone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
16 German Soldiers in the 1938 Munich Crisis Harold C. Deutsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
17 Individual Loyalty and Resistance in the German Military: The Case o f Sub-Lieutenant Oskar Kusch Heinrich Walle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
18 ‘Resistance’ to ‘No Surrender’: Popular Disobedience in Wurttemberg in 1945 Jill Stephenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
19 The Uses o f Remembrance: The Legacy of the Communist Resistance in the German Democratic Republic Eve Rosenhaft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
20 Conclusion: How Far Could the German Resistance Have Changed the Course o f History? Michael Balfour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
Selected Works since 1990 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 464
Keywords: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published: August 1, 2015
ISBN: 9781782388166