Date:          Sat, 12 Sep 1998 14:20:08 GMT + 2:00
Subject:       Re: AUT: Resistance in Nazi Germany


On Bob and Sally's request:

> >Can anyone help?  I want to do some research on working class 
> resistance > >to the nazis.  I know there were strikes, I also have read a bit about 
> > >street gangs called "Edelweiss Gangs".  My efforts to track down info 
> on > >the web has come up with a big nothing. Can anyone help me with info or 
> > >places to look?
> >thanks
> >Bob

Graham replied:

> I'll send you photocopies of an article in Commonensense by Sergio 
> Bologna about w/c resistance to the Nazis. It's got quite a few 
> references. 

I agree with Graham's suggestion. An author that has largely
influenced Bologna on this aspect is Tim Mason, with his
articulation of forms of worker responses in Nazi Germany along a
continuum between deep-seated "opposition" and overt "resistance",
which I think should be one of the starting points for such a
research. Mason's writings on working class resistance under nazism
are now collected in a book ("Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class", 
Cambridge University Press, 1995), that should be available in 
libraries. Moreover, the "Journal of Modern History" had published 
during the 1970s-1980s lots of articles by German authors (especially 
Langewiesche and others) on this topic. Hope this can help.

Franco

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