Language:
English
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Contending with Hitler
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1991) 65-74
Keywords:
World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Discusses the participation of Jews in the politically organized forms of anti-fascism before the Nazi period, and different strategies of Jewish opposition to the Nazi regime. At the beginning of the Nazi period, the representatives of German Jewish organizations pledged to respect the law. They were not prepared to call for mass emigration. After the halt of emigration in October 1941, one third of the Jewish population of 1933 was still living in Germany. The German conservative-bourgeois resistance was not interested in rallying the Jews. The persecution of the Jews did not have a decisive role in the struggle of the German workers’ movement. However, the leftist resistance invited ca. 2,000 Jewish socialists and communists to join in the anti-Nazi struggle. The 32 members of the Jewish communist group led by Herbert Baum attempted to destroy an anti-Soviet exhibition in Berlin in May 1942; 500 Jewish hostages were murdered in reprisal. Ca. 5,000 Berlin Jews chose to live in hiding; 1,402 of them survived. The limited Jewish resistance and opposition are linked to the lack of solidarity and assistance from non-Jews.
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