the resistance, the underground and assassination plots, 1938-1945
Thomsett, Michael C
1997
Recounts the history of the hidden resistance in Germany during World War II, and the people behind them, from political opponents and soldiers to ordinary citizens.
Translation of a 1947 German text that tells the story of Sophie and Hans Scholl, a brother and sister who were executed in 1943 for high treason after it became known that they were members of the anti-Fascist resistance movement, the White Rose.
pastor, martyr, prophet, spy : a Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich
Metaxas, Eric
2011
Traces the life of the Christian theologian whose faith led him to speak out against Nazism and join in unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler, discussing the personalities and experiences that shaped him and detailing his role in the religious resistance to Nazism.
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth H?bener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.