Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 A Social and Historical Typology of the German Opposition to Hitler
- 2 Working-Class Resistance: Problems and Options
- 3 Choice and Courage
- 4 Resistance and Opposition: The Example of the German Jews
- 5 From Reform to Resistance: Carl Goerdeler's 1938 Memorandum
- 6 The Conservative Resistance
- 7 The Kreisau Circle and the Twentieth of July
- 8 The Second World War, German Society, and Internal Resistance to Hitler
- 9 The Solitary Witness: No Mere Footnote to Resistance Studies
- 10 The German Resistance in Comparative Perspective
- 11 The Political Legacy of the German Resistance: A Historiographical Critique
- 12 Uses of the Past: The Anti-Nazi Resistance Legacy in the Federal Republic of Germany
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - The Kreisau Circle and the Twentieth of July
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 A Social and Historical Typology of the German Opposition to Hitler
- 2 Working-Class Resistance: Problems and Options
- 3 Choice and Courage
- 4 Resistance and Opposition: The Example of the German Jews
- 5 From Reform to Resistance: Carl Goerdeler's 1938 Memorandum
- 6 The Conservative Resistance
- 7 The Kreisau Circle and the Twentieth of July
- 8 The Second World War, German Society, and Internal Resistance to Hitler
- 9 The Solitary Witness: No Mere Footnote to Resistance Studies
- 10 The German Resistance in Comparative Perspective
- 11 The Political Legacy of the German Resistance: A Historiographical Critique
- 12 Uses of the Past: The Anti-Nazi Resistance Legacy in the Federal Republic of Germany
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
For Arthur G. Haas
Since the publication of Hans Rothfels's pioneering work on the German resistance to National Socialism some thirty years ago, the conceptualization of “resistance” has undergone a profound transformation, a transformation strikingly illustrated by the contributions to this volume. In addition to essays focusing on those well-known groups and individuals whose actions culminated in the attempted coup of July 20, 1944, we have essays on women in the resistance, the Jewish resistance, working-class resistance, as well as forms of resistance or opposition in everyday life. This broadened conceptualization of resistance, or opposition, or dissent, in the Third Reich is a vivid reflection of major departures in the historiography of the Nazi regime that began in the last decade. The heightened attention to social history, most successfully realized in the Institut fur Zeitgeschichte's ambitious Bavaria project, with its thematic emphasis on “resistance and persecution,” and in the growing body of research in Alltagsgeschichte associated with Detlev Peukert, Ian Kershaw, and others, has most certainly provided a fresh and revealing perspective from which to examine the relations between state and society, conformity and nonconformity, collaboration and dissent in the Third Reich.
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- Contending with HitlerVarieties of German Resistance in the Third Reich, pp. 99 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992