Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany - Couverture souple

Stoltzfus, Nathan

 
9780813529097: Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0813529093 ISBN 13 : 9780813529097
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2001

Synopsis

In February 1943 the Gestapo arrested approximately 10,000 Jews remaining in Berlin. Most died at Auschwitz. Two thousand of those Jews, however, had non-Jewish partners and were locked into a collection center on a street called Rosenstrasse. As news of the surprise arrest pulsed through the city, hundreds of Gentile spouses, mostly women, hurried to the Rosenstrasse in protest. A chant broke out: "Give us our husbands back."

Over the course of a week protesters vied with the Gestapo for control of the street. Now and again armed SS guards sent the women scrambling for cover with threats that they would shoot. After a week the Gestapo released these Jews, almost all of whom survived the war.

The Rosenstrasse Protest was the triumphant climax of ten years of resistance by intermarried couples to Nazi efforts to destroy their families. In fact, ninety-eight percent of German Jews who did not go into hiding and who survived Nazism lived in mixed marriages. Why did Hitler give in to the protesters? Using interviews with survivors and thousands of Nazi records never before examined in detail, Nathan Stoltzfus identifies the power of a special type of resistance--the determination to risk one's own life for the life of loved ones. A "resistance of the heart..."

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À propos de l?auteur

Nathan Stoltzfus teaches history at Florida State University. Resistance of the Heart won the Fraenkel Prize of the Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library and was selected as a "book of the year" by The New Statesman.

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813529093
ISBN 13 
9780813529097
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
388
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0393039048 ISBN 13 :  9780393039047
Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1996
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