Protest in Hitler's National Community Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response [Paperback]

That Hitlers 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 regimes 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.

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

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

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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
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