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Resisting Nazism

True Stories of Resistance to the World's Most Dangerous Ideology, from 1920 to the Present

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Resisting Nazism

True Stories of Resistance to the World's Most Dangerous Ideology, from 1920 to the Present

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Nazism has always faced resistance from the German artists who risked their lives by drawing caricatures of the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try to expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. Resisting Nazism is the first book to connect such stories, painting a vivid picture of resistance to hateful extremism across the generations.

Built original interviews with the people involved, their families, and their colleagues, as well as deep research, this book is a response to far-right populist threats and antisemitism that increasingly resembles the Nazi past. These twelve chapters in that tell a different story of resistance, tracking resistance to Nazism from the 1920s to the present. Sometimes, the stories involve incredible daring and enormous risk, but they will also show that resistance can begin with something as simple as writing your ideas down or showing solidarity with the oppressed.

Table of Contents

Guide to Common Abbreviations
Introduction: In Search of My Grandfather
I Cartoons: The Satirists Who Sounded the Alarm on Nazism in the 1920s
II Sebastian Haffner: The Lost Book by the German Who Fled the Nazis and Helped the Allies
III The Edelweiss Pirates: The Working-Class German Children Who Resisted Nazism
IV Kurt Gerstein: The SS Man Who Tried to Blow the Whistle on the Nazis' Extermination Camps
V Alexander Pechersky: The Jewish Soldier Who Led an Uprising in a Nazi Extermination Camp
VI Field Security Sections: Finding and Arresting War Criminals in the Ruins of Nazi Germany
VII Leon Bass: The Black American Soldier Who Told the World About Buchenwald
VIII Emmi Bonhoeffer: The German Activist Who Helped Holocaust Survivors in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial
IX Gitta Sereny: The Journalist Who Interviewed a Nazi Mass Murderer
X Shoah: The People Who Got Nazi War Criminals to Discuss Their Crimes on Camera
XI The Holtzman Amendment: The People Who Expelled Nazi War Criminals From the United States
XII Formers: The American Neo-Nazis Who Turned on Their Beliefs
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Further Reading
Works Cited

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 02 Apr 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 296
ISBN 9798881800697
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 15 images
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Luke Berryman

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