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Book Against Hitler

Download or read book Against Hitler written by Germany. Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt and published by . This book was released on 1995* with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the German Resistance  1933 1945

Download or read book History of the German Resistance 1933 1945 written by Peter Hoffmann and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A McGill University history professor provides a comprehensive account of the German opposition's struggle against Hitler, covering all the serious attempts to overthrow or assassinate him leading up the failed attempt of 20 July 1944. First published in West Germany in 1969 by R. Piper and Co. as Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat, this volume first appeared in English, published by Macdonald and Jane's and MIT Press, in 1977. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book An Honourable Defeat  A History of German Resistance to Hitler  1933 1945

Download or read book An Honourable Defeat A History of German Resistance to Hitler 1933 1945 written by Anton Gill and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The numbers were small, and their cause hopeless. Scattered across the landscape that was Nazi Germany, the Resistance looked puny: too little, too late. And yet it was made of many heroic men and women who were not afraid to risk their lives to stand up to a regime they knew was wrong. For those who have never known life under such a regime, it is hard to grasp the daily terror that makes an act of political graffiti a capital offense, that labels resistance "treason." Now, drawing on archival materials and on interviews with those few resisters who survived, Anton Gill brings their story to light. Here are union leaders and businessmen, priests and communists, students and factory workers; above all, here are the only people who had any real chance at more than symbolic resistance: those in the Army, the Foreign Office, the Abwehr. For these, obeying the dictates of conscience meant betraying the demands of government, and every day brought the risk of denunciation and death. 'A sober and useful analysis of the resistance to Hitler [that] reminds us of the astonishing moral courage human beings can display...The vast majority of Germans simply did not have the bravery to stand up to Hitler - but then who among us, confronted with the brutality of that regime, would have mustered the courage?' - Robert Harris, author of Fatherland, in The Sunday Times 'Mr. Gill fluidly conveys the attitudes and personalities of key figures in the resistance and the links among them.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Gill's illuminating study cogently argues that Hitler was not an irresistible force and that he succeeded only because he was allowed to.' - Publishers Weekly Anton Gill has been a freelance writer since 1984, specialising in European contemporary history but latterly branching out into historical fiction. He is the winner of the H H Wingate Award for non-fiction for his study of survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, 'The Journey Back From Hell'.

Book An Honourable Defeat

Download or read book An Honourable Defeat written by Anton Gill and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1995 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nazism and German Society  1933 1945

Download or read book Nazism and German Society 1933 1945 written by David Crew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the Third Reich as a monolithic state presiding over the brainwashed, fanatical masses, retains a tenacious grip on the general public's imagination. However, a growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed the variety and complexity of the relationships between the Nazi regime and the German people. This volume makes this new research accessible to undergraduate and graduate students alike.

Book The German Opposition to Hitler

Download or read book The German Opposition to Hitler written by Michael Thomsett and published by Crux Publishing Ltd. This book was released on with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1933 and 1945, more than 500,000 German citizens resisted the Nazi government. Many were imprisoned for political crimes which included both active attempts to remove Hitler from office and passive attempts to oppose the Nazi regime. Resistance was found among university students, churches and even in the German military. This fascinating and compelling history of the German resistance covers groups and methods from underground newspapers such as "Rote Kapella" and "Internal Front" to conspiracy movements within the army, that culminated with Operation Valkyrie, a coup d'état and assassination attempt which went terribly wrong.

Book Quantifying Resistance

Download or read book Quantifying Resistance written by Wayne Geerling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an authoritarian regime. By studying serious political resistance from a quantitative historical perspective, the book opens up a new avenue of research for economic history. The database underpinning the book was painstakingly compiled from official state records of treason and/or high treason tried before the German People’s Court (Volksgerichtshof) between 1933 and 1945. It brings together material on resistance groups stored in the archives of the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria with previously inaccessible files from the former German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. Through searching these records, the authors have been able to reconstruct in hitherto unattainable detail the economic, social, political, ethnic and familial profiles, backgroun ds, and influences of all 4,378 civilians of the Third Reich active in Germany, Austria and the outside territories for whom there are complete records. The findings of their research afford fresh, new interdisciplinary insights and perspectives, not only on the configuration, timing, impact and profile of resistance to the Nazi state, but also on a range of real-world behaviours common within authoritarian states, such as defection, reward and punishment, and commitment to group identities. The book’s statistical analysis reveals precisely the who, how, where and when of serious resistance. In so doing, it advances significantly our understanding of the overall pattern and nature of serious resistance within Nazi Germany.

Book The German Resistance to Hitler

Download or read book The German Resistance to Hitler written by Hermann Graml and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes four essays, each written by a German specialist, that discuss important problems of the German resistance with judgment and candor, offering the kind of interpretive judgment often lacking in other histories. Hermann Graml shows that as far as foreign policy, the resistance conservatives were never quite able to reconcile their hopes for a supranational solution in central Europe with their desire to fulfill traditional national aims from a position of German strength. Addressing the social policy of resisting groups, Hans Mommsen concludes that a central purpose was the "de-massing of the masses," while rejecting both communism and Western democracy. Hans-Joachim Reichhardt assesses the labor movement, wherein Communist leaders come out badly. Utterly failing to understand the threat of Hitler, they refused to join in efforts to thwart his coming to power. On the efforts of the religious, Ernst Wolf concludes, as have so many others, that the heroic resistance of individual Christians contrasts lamentably with the role played by organized Christianity. These thoughtful essays reinforce the impression gained in larger and more detailed studies: the resistance to Hitler's barbarism by decent German citizens was widespread, genuine--and tragically ineffective.

Book The Moral Imperative

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  • Author : Andrew Chandler
  • Publisher : Westview Press
  • Release : 1998-06-18
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book The Moral Imperative written by Andrew Chandler and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1998-06-18 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moral Imperative: New Essays on the Ethics of Resistance in National Socialist Germany, 1933–1945 explores a number of the moral codes that inspired, justified, and sustained the resisting conscience in the Third Reich. This collection of essays, by seven of the top scholars working on the history of the German resistance, including Klemens von Klemperer, Peter Hoffmann, and Beate Ruhm von Oppen, relates the contributors' expressions to the cultural and institutional realities of a totalitarian state. Topics covered include the church and the resistance, the Prussian conservative element, and the persecution of the Jews as a motivation for resistance by non-Jews.

Book Nazi Germany

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  • Author : Pamela E. Swett
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2024-07-11
  • ISBN : 1350112631
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Nazi Germany written by Pamela E. Swett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nazi Germany provides a comprehensive survey of the National Socialist dictatorship, artfully balancing social and cultural history with a political and military history of the regime. The book unravels the complexities of the daily lives of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders in the 'Third Reich', and it also places events in Germany from 1933 to 1945 in a transnational context. Nazi Germany prompts readers to think about not only the historical debates but also the ethical questions that attend the study of this period. Pamela E. Swett and S. Jonathan Wiesen address: *The movement's ideological origins and the party's rise to power *The creation of a police state, the use of propaganda, and public support for Nazi ideas and programs *The Nazis' persecution of religious, racial, and sexual minorities *The place of youth, family, gender, and cultural expression in Nazi society *The transnational influence of Nazism and preparations for war in Germany *The Holocaust, resistance to Nazism, and the Second World War Swett and Wiesen explore how the violence and racism of the Nazis coexisted alongside Germany's self-presentation as a 'normal' state with happy, productive citizens.Through exposure to the voices of contemporaries, readers will be prompted to consider key questions: How did German democracy give way to a brutal dictatorship so quickly? What was daily life like for 'average' Germans and those labeled as biological and political outsiders? Why did the Nazi dictatorship embark on a destructive war that led to the death of tens of millions of Europeans and to the demise of a political order that had become exceedingly popular by 1939?

Book Plotting Hitler s Death

Download or read book Plotting Hitler s Death written by Joachim C. Fest and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiem and again, small numbers of Germans, civilian nad military, noble and ignoble, scheme to topple the Fuhrer, and on several occasions they came within minutes - or inches - of succeeding. Fest explores why they tried, why they found so little support either in Germany or outside it, and why they failed.

Book Inside Nazi Germany

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  • Author : Detlev Peukert
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1987-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300044805
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Inside Nazi Germany written by Detlev Peukert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by Detlev Peukert is a survey of the complex experiences and attitudes of ordinary German people between 1933 and 1945. It records how people lived during this period, how they evaded or accepted the regime's demands, and where they positioned themselves along the spectrum between the front lines, side lines, and firing lines.

Book Withstanding Hitler in Germany  1933 45

Download or read book Withstanding Hitler in Germany 1933 45 written by Michael Leonard Graham Balfour and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Withstanding Hitler examines the problem of German acquiescence in Nazi ascendancy. It is an insightful, heartbreaking, and riveting account of those who committed their lives to resistance.

Book The Third Reich

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  • Author : Klaus Hildebrand
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2003-09-02
  • ISBN : 1134898274
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book The Third Reich written by Klaus Hildebrand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Hildebrand gives a masterly and succinct account of Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 and then analyses the major problems of interpretation and the extent to which common ground has been achieved by scholars in the field. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

Book Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany

Download or read book Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany written by Frank McDonough and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was much popular support for Hitler's regime in Nazi Germany, and little widespread domestic opposition or resistance. However, a number of individuals amd small groups, from all sections of society, did engage in acts of public defiance or resistance against the regime. This opposition came from the Christian churches; communists, socialists and industrial workers; conservative groups; elements within the army; students and the German youth; and Jews. This book looks at the nature of this opposition and the historical debate surrounding it.