Contending with Hitler
Varieties of German Resistance in the Third Reich

A distillation of recent scholarship on Germany's domestic resistance to the Nazi dictatorship.

David Clay Large (Edited by)

9780521466684, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 June 1994

208 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.31 kg

"...a useful introduction to recent scholarship on the character and implications of the German resistance." James J. Sheehan, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Contending with Hitler is a distillation of recent scholarship on Germany's domestic resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. Comprising twelve original essays by leading German and American scholars, it sets forth the issues that specialists and laymen alike must keep in mind as they try to understand the nature and significance of this complex problem. Unlike most histories of the German resistance, this volume does not restrict its focus to well-known opposition factions like the Kreisau Circle and the Twentieth of July conspiracy; rather, it includes investigations of resistance efforts by Jews, women, workers, and young people. The Socialist opposition is illuminated by the personal observations of former West German chancellor, Willy Brandt.

1. Editor's introduction David Clay Large
2. Willy Brandt
3. Theodore Ellenoff
4. Fritz Stern
5. A social and historical typology of the German opposition to Hitler Martin Broszat
6. Working-class resistance: problems and options Detlav J. K. Peukert
7. Choice and courage Claudia Koonz
8. Resistance and opposition: the example of the German Jews Konrad Kwiet
9. From reform to resistance: Carl Goerdeler's 1938 memorandum Michael Kruger-Charle
10. The conservative resistance Peter Steinbach
11. The Kreisau circle and the 20th of July Thomas Childers
12. The Seco
13. The solitary witness: no mere footnote to resistance studies Klemens Von Klemperer
14. The German resistance in comparative perspective Charles Maier
15. The political legacy of the German resistance: an historical critique Hans Mommsen
16. Uses of the Past: the anti-Nazi resistance legacy in the Federal Republic of Germany David Clay Large.

Subject Areas: Second World War [HBWQ], European history [HBJD]