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S'està carregant… Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rulede Thomas Gordon, Greg Lewis
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I was impressed by the difference in background among the resistance documented by the authors We hear the stories of the White Rose students Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christopher Probst, followed by the near success of aristocratic military men like Stauffenberg and the less well-known, Tresckow. I had to disengage for a time after reading how close the military came to killing Hitler. Hitler cut short a tour of captured Russian weapons just before a bomb could go off carried by a German military office, Christoph von Gersdorff. The well-known Valkyrie attempt is retraced for those unfamiliar with its history. The book is well indexed, allowing us to check on the many characters. Almost every actor in the resistance was found out and executed --Bonhoeffer, less than a month before the war's end. The authors do not waver from entering the life of the most controversial resister of all -- Kurt Gerstein -- the man who became an SS officer in order to "bear witness." They document his life until, at the end of the war, he commits suicide in a French prison before Swedish diplomats and others can corroborate the sincerity of his efforts to produce evidence of war crimes. To their credit, the authors resist the temptation of forcing a comparison to the present. Instead, the authors cite how all of the German resistance seemed able to see beyond their short-term failure. A closing quote from the book honors this vision: "... while they could not save their nation, they did ensure that, as Germany sought to find itself again, it could cling to a spirit of goodness and purity: a resistance, an opposition, a White Rose." ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"Nazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets to Allied spies. Some forged passports to help Jews escape the Reich. For others, resistance was as simple as writing a letter denouncing the rigidity of Nazi law. No matter how small the act, the danger was the same-any display of defiance was met with arrest, interrogation, torture, and even death. Defying Hitler follows the underground network of Germans who believed standing against the Fuhrer to be more important than their own survival. Their bravery is astonishing-a schoolgirl beheaded by the Gestapo for distributing anti-Nazi fliers; a German American teacher who smuggled military intel to Soviet agents, becoming the only American woman executed by the Nazis; a pacifist philosopher murdered for his role in a plot against Hitler; a young idealist who joined the SS to document their crimes, only to end up, to his horror, an accomplice to the Holocaust. This remarkable account illuminates their struggles, yielding an accessible narrative history with the pace and excitement of a thriller."-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)943.086History and Geography Europe Germany and central Europe Historical periods of Germany Germany 1866- Third Reich 1933-1945LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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