Confront!: Resistance in Nazi Germany

ISBN-13: 9780820463179 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 251 str.

Michalczyk, John J.

Opis

Many critics and some historians consider resistance in Nazi Germany as too little and too late. Few Germans were willing to take risks, and others began to oppose the Third Reich only when the end was in sight. However, despite the threat of prison, concentration camp, or death, there were many diverse groups from the academic, military, and spiritual sectors of society that challenged the Reich's harsh, unjust policies. This book represents the spectrum of these forms of resistance and illustrates the courage of those who dared to confront the Nazi government.

Spis treści

Contents: John J. Michalczyk: Foreword - James Bernauer, S.J.: Historical Memory: A Continuing of the Resistance? - Paul Bookbinder: Confronting Resistance in Nazi Germany: An Overview - Donald J. Dietrich: Christianity in the Third Reich: Adaptation and Resistance - James N. Pellechia: The Cost of Spiritual Resistance: Jehovah's Witnesses during the Nazi Era - Rudolf Graichen: One Person's Account of Spiritual Resistance - Dennis Showalter: Conscience, Honor and Expediency: The German Army's Resistance to Hitler - Paul Bookbinder: The Nazis Must Go, the Tyrant Must Die - 1938 - Peter Hoffmann: The German Resistance and the Holocaust - Rachel Freudenburg, with Andreas Thomas/Jenny Gesualdo/Priscilla Loh: "You see it too Simply". Freya von Moltke Looks Back on the Kreisau Circle - Ina R. Friedman: The Red Orchestra and Cato Bontjes Van Beek - Nathan Stoltzfus: Rosenstrasse: Civil Courage of Ordinary Persons in Nazi Germany - George Wittenstein: The White Rose: A Commitment - John J. Michalczyk/Franz Joseph Müller of the White Rose: The White Rose Student Movement in Germany: Its History and Relevance Today - Anna E. Rosmus: The Struggle Continues: Hate Crime in Germany Today.

O autorze

The Editor: John J. Michalczyk is Chair of the Fine Arts Department as well as Co-Director and Professor in the Film Studies Program at Boston College. He received his Ph.D. in art, film, and propaganda in the Spanish Civil War from Harvard University. To date, Professor Michalczyk has published seven books on the relationship of politics to literature and film. Over the past ten years, he has produced twelve documentary films, most of which were broadcast nationally on PBS television, and several internationally. His most recent films document narratives of international conflict resolution and personal stories of the disabled.