Berlin ghetto : Herbert Baum and the anti-fascist resistance /

Berlin Ghetto tells the story of a group of young people who had lives filled with intellectual exploration, intense friendships and romances and dangerous, illegal political action against the Nazi regime. The roots of anti-fascism in the Communist, Socialist and Jewish youth movements of pre-Nazi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brothers, Eric
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stroud, England : Spellmount, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • The seeds of Jewish anti-fascism (1925-1932)
  • THe search for a German-Jewish identity in the youth movement
  • The 'Red assimilation'
  • Stalinism in the communist party of Germany
  • Descent into darkness (1933)
  • Persecution, setbacks and the beginning of resistance (1933)
  • Acts of rebellion (1934)
  • Arrests and persecution (1935)
  • The Brussels conference and the 'Trojan Horse' policy (1935-1936)
  • Political and intellectual resistance (1936)
  • Communism as a cure for Nazism (1937)
  • Resistance in isolation and Kristallnacht (1938)
  • Renewed activity, attempts to flee and the Nazi-Soviet treaties (1939)
  • War, forced labour and resistance (1939-1940)
  • Anti-fascism takes centre stage and trouble-brewing (1941)
  • Living on the edge and 'Soviet Paradise' (1942)
  • Arson, arrests and reprisals (1942)
  • Interrogations, executions and survival (1942-1944).