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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Defying Hitler
    sub title: the Germans who resisted Nazi rule
  name:
    name part: Thomas, Gordon
    name part: 1933-2017
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lewis, Greg
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 542 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: An enthralling work of popular history that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule. Nazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless ordinary, everyday Germans actively resisted Hitler. Some passed industrial secrets to Allied spies. Some forged passports to help Jews escape the Reich. For others, resistance was as simple as writing a letter denouncing the rigidity of Nazi law. No matter how small the act, the danger was the same. Any display of defiance was met with arrest, interrogation, torture and even death. Defying Hitler follows the underground network of Germans who believed standing against the Fuhrer to be more important than their own survival. Their bravery is astonishing, a schoolgirl beheaded by the Gestapo for distributing anti-Nazi fliers, a German American teacher who smuggled military intel to Soviet agents, becoming the only American woman executed by the Nazis, a pacifist philosopher murdered for his role in a plot against Hitler, a young idealist who joined the SS to document their crimes, only to end up, to his horror, an accomplice to the Holocaust. This remarkable account illuminates their struggles, yielding an accessible narrative history with the pace and excitement of a thriller.
  table of contents: Meetings in Madison -- Enemies of the people -- The American embassy -- The battle for German youth -- The Moscow connection -- Hans Oster -- Munich -- America's spy -- Kristallnacht -- A summer ends in war -- Crossing the Rubicon -- The Luftwaffe officer -- God's witness -- Corsican delivers -- Life unworthy of life -- Dangerous to know -- Operation 7 -- Tresckow -- Questions for the Abwehr -- Rote Kapelle -- Fire in Berlin -- A student in Munich -- An order for Gerstein -- Belzec -- The hunted -- Hitler's bloodhound -- White Rose : the Harnack connection -- Swift arrests demanded -- Long live freedom -- On the run -- Mr. Douglas and Mr. Wood -- The brandy bomb -- The "Z Grau" file -- Unmasking Cicero -- Enter Stauffenberg -- Valkyrie -- Valkyrie unravels -- Sonderkommission 20 Juli -- Götterdämmerung.
  note: Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    topic: Anti-Nazi movement
    geographic: Germany
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1933-1945
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Europe / Germany
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / World War II
  subject:
    topic: TRUE CRIME / Espionage
  classification: DD256.3 .T47 2019
  classification: 943.086
  identifier: 9780451489043
  identifier: 0451489047
  identifier: 9780451489050
  identifier: 2018021073
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180715
    record change date: 20190718165312.0
    record identifier: in00004064016