In the context of the Holocaust and World War Two, the word “resistance” is generally used to describe organized efforts to overthrow or at least to undermine Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Only a handful of people engaged in such resistance. They include dramatic examples like Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi Party and an industrialist who saved around 1,200 Jewish people during the Holocaust through subterfuge and bribery; Claus von Stauffenberg, a colonel who led an attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944; and the ‘White Rose’ student group, some of whom were executed after being caught distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. But ‘resistance’ can be defined in other ways.
In this new What History Teaches webinar, Dr. Luke Berryman will dive deep into the history books to explore forgotten acts of nonconformity, noncompliance, and protest, with the goal of reshaping our understanding of resistance and its meanings for today.
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