Lecture 16: Non-Jewish Resistance and Rescue

1. Preliminary
   • Papers due at beginning of class-with prospectuses!!
   • return Q3 at end of class
   • Holocaust survivor next Tuesday: be sure to read R27
2. Historicizing Anne Frank
   • Changes for the 1950s German audience
3. Military: 20 July 1944 assassination attempt
   • At the very end of the regime
     • "People's Court," presiding judge Roland Freisler (Justice Dept. in Wannsee conf.)
     • special footage filmed for Hitler, edited by Goebbels himself
     • Purpose: humiliate the participants, for Hitler's amusement
   • Film (4 mins.): Trial of 20 July 1944 conspirators, 1961 documentary "Mein Kampf"
   • Film (8 mins.): Traitors to Hitler, 1979 documentary
4. German resistance to Nazi dictates: the exception, not the rule
   • Religious: Nov. 1936 school strike in Cloppenburg near Bremen;
     Apr./May 1941 in Bavaria
   • Church: Bishop von Galen's 3 Aug. 1941 sermon against "euthanasia" gassing program
   • Youth: "Edelweiss Pirates" in Cologne, 1940-Nov. 1944.
   • Students: "White Rose" (Munich), July 1942-Feb. 1943.
     • culmination after defeat at Stalingrad
     • Jan/Feb flyers in reader
     • audience?
     • goals?
   • "Aryan" Wives of Jews: Rosenstrasse in Berlin,
     27 Feb. 1943 "factory action" to 6 March protest