Protest in Hitler's "National Community"

Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-733-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

Reihe: Protest, Culture & Society

That Hitler’s Gestapo harshly suppressed any signs of opposition inside the Third Reich is a common misconception. This book presents studies of public dissent that prove this was not always the case. It examines circumstances under which “racial” Germans were motivated to protest, as well as the conditions determining the regime’s response. Workers, women, and religious groups all convinced the Nazis to appease rather than repress “racial” Germans. Expressions of discontent actually increased during the war, and Hitler remained willing to compromise in governing the German Volk as long as he thought the Reich could salvage victory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoltzfus, Nathan

Maier-Katkin, Birgit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Nazi Responses to Popular Protest in the Reich

Nathan Stoltzfus

Chapter 1.Aspects of German Procedures in the Holocaust

Gerhard L. Weinberg

Chapter 2. Women and Protest in Wartime Nazi Germany

Jill Stephenson

Chapter 3.The Demonstrations in Support of the Evangelical Land Bishop Hans Meiser: a Successful Protest against the Nazi Regime?

Christiane Kuller

Chapter 4.The Catholic Church, Bishop von Galen and ‘Euthanasia’

Winfried Süß

Chapter 5.The Possibilities of Protest in the Third Reich: The Witten Demonstration in Context

Julie Torrie

Chapter 6. The ‘Legend’ of Women’s Resistance in the Rosenstrasse

Katharina von Kellenbach

Chapter 7. Auschwitz, the 'Fabrik-Aktion', Rosenstrasse: A Plea for a Change of Perspective

Joachim Neander

Chapter 8. The 1943 Rosenstrasse Protest and the Churches

Antonia Leugers

Chapter 9. Protest and Aftermath: Popular Protest in Nazi German History

Nathan Stoltzfus

Afterword: Protest and Resistance

David Clay Large

APPENDIX: TRANSLATED DOCUMENTS

Appendix I: The Situation of the "Mischlinge" in Germany, Mid-March 1943, by Gerhard Lehfeldt

Appendix II: Decree Regarding the Removal of Jews from Frankfurt/Oder Factories, February 25, 1943

Appendix III: April 1, 1943 OSS document identifying Protest in Berlin with the Interruption of Deportation of Jews

Appendix IV: Translated Excerpts from the Diaries of Joseph Goebbels, Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Frölich (Munich: K.G. Saur)

Appendix V: Excerpts from testimonies of women who protested for their Jewish husbands in response to a request from the Berlin Bureau of Reparations, 1955.

Appendix VI: Excerpts of Individual Sections and Paragraphs from Legal Texts and Ordinances (1933-1941)

Appendix VII: RSHA Guidelines for Deportation to Auschwitz, Berlin, February 20, 1943

Appendix VIII: Documents of the SS at Auschwitz from early March 1943 indicating their “pull” for workers from Berlin and their expectation that more working Jews (intermarried) would be sent from Berlin

Appendix IX: Documents in response to the Witten Protest and from 1944 indicating Hitler’s continuing refusal to use force against “racial” civilians who refused to follow regime guidelines for evacuating bombed areas.

Appendix X: Excerpts from the recent German press representing controversies about public protest by ordinary Germans in the Third Reich.

Select Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maier-Katkin, Birgit
Birgit Maier-Katkin is Associate Professor of German at Florida State University. She is author of Silence and Acts of Memory: A Postwar Discourse on Literature, History, Anna Seghers, and Women in the Third Reich (Bucknell University Press, 2007).

Stoltzfus, Nathan
Nathan Stoltzfus is Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University. His most recent publication is Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany (New Haven: Yale, 2016).

Nathan Stoltzfus is Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University. His most recent publication is Hitler’s Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany (New Haven: Yale, 2016).