Contending with Hitler
Subtitle: Varieties of German Resistance in the Third Reich (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 24, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780521466684
Subjects: European history: Second World War; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; History - General History; History; History: World; Germany; Europe - Germany; History / Europe / General; Europe - General
First sentence: My purpose in this essay is to develop a historical and social typology derived from an exploration of the broad variety of attitudes toward resistance prevalent in German society under the Nazi regime: attitudes that changed in response to the historical development of the regime and that differed among various sectors of German society.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / David Clay Large; title: The German resistance movement, 1933-1945 : addresses / Willy Brandt, Theodore Ellenoff, Fritz Stern; title: A social and historical typology of the German opposition to Hitler / Martin Broszat; title: Working-class resistance : problems and options / Detlev J.K. Peukert; title: Choice and courage / Claudia Koonz; title: Resistance and opposition : the example of the German Jews / Konrad Kwiet; title: From reform to resistance : Carl Goerdeler's 1938 memorandum / Michael Krüger-Charlé; title: The conservative resistance / Peter Steinbach; title: The Kreisau circle and the twentieth of July / Thomas Childers; title: The Second World War, German society, and internal resistance to Hitler / Peter Hoffmann; title: The solitary witness : no mere footnote to resistance studies / Klemens von Klemperer; title: The German resistance in comparative perspective / Charles Maier; title: The political legacy of the German resistance : a historiographical critique / Hans Mommsen; title: Uses of the past : the anti-Nazi resistance legacy in the Federal Republic of Germany / David Clay Large