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The Good Germans - Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945 (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The Good Germans - Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945 (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the
two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis - some 40
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.
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