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11 Social Democratic Resistance Against Hitler and the European Tradition o f Underground Movements

© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

© 2022, Berghahn Books, New York, Oxford

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents VII
  3. List of Tables XI
  4. Preface XIII
  5. Preface to the Paperback Edition XV
  6. Peter Hoffman’s Bibliography since 1990 XXI
  7. 1 Introduction: Resistance to National Socialism in the Work of Peter Hoffmann 1
  8. 2 Surveillance and Disobedience: Aspects of the Political Policing of Nazi Germany 15
  9. 3 Conservative Opposition to Nazism in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, 1932-1933 37
  10. 4 Self-Defence Against Fascism in a Middle-Class Community: The Jews in Weimar Germany and Beyond 59
  11. 5 Jewish Resistance to Nazi Racial Legislation in Silesia, 1933-1937 77
  12. 6 Between Pacifism and Patriotism — A Protestant Dilemma: The Case of Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze 87
  13. 7 A Radical Minority: Resistance in the German Protestant Church 115
  14. 8 Catholic Resistance to Biological and Racist Eugenics in the Third Reich 137
  15. 9 Social Unrest and the Response o f the Nazi Regime, 1934-1936 157
  16. 10 Peasants and Workers in their Environment: Nonconformity and Opposition to National Socialism in the Austrian Alps 175
  17. 11 Social Democratic Resistance Against Hitler and the European Tradition o f Underground Movements 191
  18. 12 Dutch Contacts with the Resistance in Germany 205
  19. 13 The National-Conservatives and Opposition to the Third Reich before the Second World War 221
  20. 14 Between England and Germany: Adam von Trott’s Contacts with the British 253
  21. 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 279
  22. 16 German Soldiers in the 1938 Munich Crisis 305
  23. 17 Individual Loyalty and Resistance in the German Military: The Case o f Sub-Lieutenant Oskar Kusch 323
  24. 18 ‘Resistance’ to ‘No Surrender’: Popular Disobedience in Wurttemberg in 1945 351
  25. 19 The Uses o f Remembrance: The Legacy of the Communist Resistance in the German Democratic Republic 369
  26. 20 Conclusion: How Far Could the German Resistance Have Changed the Course o f History? 389
  27. Contributors 399
  28. Bibliography 405
  29. Selected Works since 1990 423
  30. Index 429
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