The good Germans : [resisting the Nazis 1933-1945] / Clay, Catrine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clay, Catrine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-Nazi movement--Germany.

Anti-Nazi movement.

Germany.

World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.

World War, 1939-1945.

War--Underground movements.

Politics and government.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Physical Description:

404 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.

Summary:

After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 20 million people - tried to keep their heads down and protect their families. They moved to the country, or pretended to support the regime to avoid being denounced by neighbours, and tried to work out what was really happening in the Reich, surrounded as they were by Nazi propaganda and fake news. They lived in fear. Might they lose their jobs? Their homes? Their freedom? What would we have done in their place? Many ordinary Germans found the courage to resist, in the full knowledge that they could be sentenced to indefinite incarceration, torture or outright execution. Catrine Clay argues that it was a much greater number than was ever formally recorded: teachers, lawyers, factory and dock workers, housewives, shopkeepers, church members, trade unionists, army officers, aristocrats, Social Democrats, Socialists and Communists. Catrine Clay's ground-breaking book focuses on six very different characters: Irma, the young daughter of Ernst Thalmann, leader of the German Communists; Fritzi von der Schulenburg, a Prussian aristocrat; Rudolf Ditzen, the already famous author Hans Fallada, best known for his novel Alone in Berlin; Bernt Engelmann, a schoolboy living in the suburbs of Dusseldorf; Julius Leber, a charismatic leader of the Social Democrats in the Reichstag; and Fabian von Schlabrendorff, a law student in Berlin. The six are not seen in isolation but as part of their families: a brother and sister; a wife; a father with three children; an only son; the parents of a Communist pioneer daughter. Each experiences the momentous events of Nazi history as they unfold in their own small lives - Good Germans all.

Contents:

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1. The Swastika

2. The Nazis Take Power

3. 1933 And All That

4. The Early Years Of Nazi Rule

5. Hard Times: 1935

6. The Nazis Tighten The Screw

7. Turning Point: 1938

8. The Road To War: 1939

9. Into The Darkness

10. A War On Two Fronts

11. Back In The Reich

12. The End

13. Aftermath.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781474607889

1474607888

9781474607872

147460787X

OCLC:

987421924

Publisher Number:

99985631119