Circles of resistance; Jewish, leftist, and youth dissidence in Nazi Germany.

9781433105579

Circles of resistance; Jewish, leftist, and youth dissidence in Nazi Germany.

Cox, John M.

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

2009

200 pages

$72.95

Hardcover

Studies in modern European history; v.62

DS134

The "White Rose," a group of students at the University of Munich who were executed for their literature condemning Nazism from a humanistic perspective, was known beyond Germany in 1942-43. Cox (history/Judaic, Holocaust, and human rights studies, Florida Gulf Coast U.) chronicles resistance efforts by disparate subculture groups of German Jews, leftist dissidents, and youths inspired by the White Rose. After tracing the origins, actions, and fate of these groups, he discusses how their efforts were denigrated by Cold War propaganda that narrowly defined 'resistance' as pertaining only to those who had attempted to assassinate Hitler; after all, many members were Communists, notably German-Jew Herman Baum, who was memorialized in East Germany as a friend of the Soviet Union.

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