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

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. Contents List of Tables Preface Preface to the Paperback Edition Peter Hoffman’s Bibliography since 1990 1 Introduction: Resistance to National Socialism in the Work of Peter Hoffmann 2 Surveillance and Disobedience: Aspects of the Political Policing of Nazi Germany 3 Conservative Opposition to Nazism in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, 1932-1933 4 Self-Defence Against Fascism in a Middle-Class Community: The Jews in Weimar Germany and Beyond 5 Jewish Resistance to Nazi Racial Legislation in Silesia, 1933-1937 6 Between Pacifism and Patriotism — A Protestant Dilemma: The Case of Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze 7 A Radical Minority: Resistance in the German Protestant Church 8 Catholic Resistance to Biological and Racist Eugenics in the Third Reich 9 Social Unrest and the Response o f the Nazi Regime, 1934-1936 10 Peasants and Workers in their Environment: Nonconformity and Opposition to National Socialism in the Austrian Alps 11 Social Democratic Resistance Against Hitler and the European Tradition o f Underground Movements 12 Dutch Contacts with the Resistance in Germany 13 The National-Conservatives and Opposition to the Third Reich before the Second World War 14 Between England and Germany: Adam von Trott’s Contacts with the British 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 16 German Soldiers in the 1938 Munich Crisis 17 Individual Loyalty and Resistance in the German Military: The Case o f Sub-Lieutenant Oskar Kusch 18 ‘Resistance’ to ‘No Surrender’: Popular Disobedience in Wurttemberg in 1945 19 The Uses o f Remembrance: The Legacy of the Communist Resistance in the German Democratic Republic 20 Conclusion: How Far Could the German Resistance Have Changed the Course o f History? Contributors Bibliography Selected Works since 1990 Index