Language:
German
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Geschichte und Gesellschaft; Zeitschrift für historische Sozialwissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,2 (1995) 218-247
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
;
National socialism Public opinion
;
Mischlinge (Nuremberg Laws of 1935)
Abstract:
Discusses the successful opposition of non-Jews in mixed families, and of the Catholic Church, to Nazi policies. Focuses on the demand, in 1941, that Jewish partners of mixed marriages and Mischlinge be deported: despite his initial fear of the reactions of Aryan relatives and of the exposure of the program of the Final Solution, Goebbels finally agreed to the deportations in 1943. Aryan partners and parents, mostly women, gathered to protest in front of the Rosenstrasse prison where the deportees were being held. Goebbels retreated, the prisoners were released and thus survived, with the case becoming a precedent in Germany and in the occupied countries. Discusses, also, the success of the Catholic Church in causing changes in Nazi policy. Queries whether public protests might have saved other Jews, but notes that they did not take place anywhere else. Analyzes various forms of resistance - "Widerstand" (attempts to overthrow the regime) and "Resistenz" (protest aimed to preserve the values of private life) - concluding that the latter's limited goals made it more effective.
Description / Table of Contents:
Dipper, Christof. Schwierigkeiten mit der Resistenz. Ibid. 22 (1996) 409-416.
Description / Table of Contents:
Stoltzfus, Nathan. "Third Reich History as if the people mattered"; eine Entgegnung auf Christof Dipper. Ibid. 26,4 (2000) 672-684.
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