Sangster, Andrew "Make Germany Great Again". How the german People Reacted to Nazisim

After the Second World War, the Allies used the term "collective guilt" in relation to the German people, which after minimal research seems unjust. From the moment he led Germany into war, there was active opposition to Hitler, ranging from young teenagers to students to top civil servants, diplomats and the highest ranks of the military. As the moral depravity of the Nazi regime became apparent, many Germans turned against the regime, although there was always one staunch fanatic. They had become a repressed society, monitored by Himmler's SD and fearing above all the interrogations by the Gestapo, which one German described as the "silence in the cemetery". This did not stop the so-called passive resistance, which is also explored in this book, through German diarists who wrote their accounts not with hindsight but with real integrity at the time the events were unfolding. This book examines not only the resistance that culminated in the 20 July plot and the disagreements between the various resistance groups, but also the reaction of the German public, a question that may leave the reader wondering where he or she might have stood in the circumstances and under such a regime.