Protest in Hitler's “National Community” : : Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response / / ed. by Birgit Maier-Katkin, Nathan Stoltzfus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Kellenbach, Katharina von,; Kuller, Christiane,; Large, David Clay,; Leugers, Antonia,; Maier-Katkin, Brigit,; Neander, Joachim,; Stephenson, Jill,; Stoltzfus, Nathan,; Süß, Winfried,; Torrie, Julia S.,; Weinberg, Gerhard L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Maier-Katkin, Birgit,; Stoltzfus, Nathan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Protest, Culture & Society ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Editors’ Preface -- Introduction: Nazi Responses to Popular Protest in the Reich -- Chapter 1 Aspects of German Procedures in the Holocaust -- Chapter 2 Women and Protest in Wartime Nazi Germany -- Chapter 3 The Demonstrations in Support of the Protestant Provincial Bishop Hans Meiser: A Successful Protest Against the Nazi Regime? -- Chapter 4 The Catholic Church, Bishop von Galen, and “Euthanasia” -- Chapter 5 The Possibilities of Protest in the Third Reich: The Witten Demonstration in Context -- Chapter 6 The “Legend” of Women’s Resistance in the Rosenstrasse -- Chapter 7 Auschwitz, the “Fabrik-Aktion,” Rosenstrasse: A plea for a change of perspective -- Chapter 8 The 1943 Rosenstrasse Protest and the Churches -- Chapter 9 Protest and Aftermath: Placing Protest in the History of Nazi Germany -- Afterword: Protest and Resistance -- Appendix 1 The Situation of the “Mischlinge” in Germany, Mid-March 1943* -- Appendix 2 Decree Regarding the Removal of Jews from Frankfurt/Oder Factories, February 24, 1943 -- Appendix 3 April 1, 1943, OSS Document Identifying Protest in Berlin with the Interruption of Deportation of Jews -- Appendix 4 Translated Excerpts from the Diaries of Joseph Goebbels Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Frölich (Munich: K.G. Saur -- Appendix 5 Excerpts from testimonies of women who protested for their Jewish husbands in response to a request from the Berlin Bureau of Reparations, 1955. -- Appendix 6 Excerpts of Individual Sections and Paragraphs from Legal Texts and Ordinances (1933–1941) -- Appendix 7 RSHA Guidelines for Deportation to Auschwitz, Berlin, February 20, 1943 -- Appendix 8 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 9 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 10 Excerpts from the recent German press representing controversies about public protest by ordinary Germans in the Third Reich -- Selected Bibliography -- Index