Resisting Nazism : true stories of resistance to the world's most dangerous ideology, from 1920 to the present / Luke Berryman.
| Author/creator | Berryman, Luke B. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xiv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cartoons: the satirists who sounded the alarm on Nazism in the 1920s -- Sebastian Haffner: the lost book by the German who fled the Nazis and helped the Allies -- The edelweiss pirates: the working-class German children who resisted Nazism -- Kurt Gerstein: the SS man who tried to blow the whistle on the Nazis' Extermination Camps -- Alexander Pechersky: the Jewish soldier who led an uprising in a Nazi extermination camp -- Field security sections: finding and arresting war criminals in the ruins of Nazi Germany -- Leon Bass: the Black American soldier who told the world about Buchenwald -- Emmi Bonhoeffer: the German activist who helped holocaust survivors in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial -- Gitta Sereny: the journalist who interviewed a Nazi mass murderer -- Shoah: the people who got Nazi war criminals to discuss their crimes on camera -- The Holtzman Amendment: the people who expelled Nazi war criminals from the United States -- Formers: the American Neo-Nazis who turned on their beliefs. |
| Abstract | "Nazism has always faced resistance, from when it began in the 1920s up to the present. This resistance has come from people of all faiths, nationalities, and political affiliations. Many of them have been forgotten, such as 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 women who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. The list goes on. Resisting Nazism is the first book to connect such stories, painting a vivid picture of resistance to far-right extremism across the generations. It's built on deep research, and on interviews with the people involved, their families, and their colleagues, and with academic experts. With antisemitism rising in the US, and a far-right populist threat that increasingly resembles the Nazi past, this will be a timely and welcomed response to this question. There are twelve chapters in Resisting Nazism. Each one tells a different story of resistance. But, instead of focusing on the time between 1933 and 1945, the book tracks resistance to Nazism from the 1920s to the present. Sometimes, the stories in Resisting Nazism involve incredible daring and enormous risk. But they will also empower readers by showing that resistance can begin with something as simple as writing down your ideas or showing solidarity with the oppressed"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Berryman, Luke B. Resisting Nazism New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 9798881800703 |
| LCCN | 2025022920 |
| ISBN | 9798881800697 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | New Books | DD256.3 .B445 2025 | ✔ Available | Want This? |