Know of any books about Germans living in Nazi Germany who saw what was

[raccoon]

happening and tried to speak up and warn others before it was too late?

[Cassandra]

1. Anything about the White Rose Society...

would probably be a good start.

[mrcheerful]

3. Opps, I forgot about the White Rose Society. Sorry about that, it's been awhile

since I have had contact with my dad's family and White Rose slipped my mind. Gramps died in 1990 and after he was gone no more family reunions were held, so I haven't seen any family from gramps side of the family since.

[mrcheerful]

2. I don't think there are any books like that, the Germans that didn't like Hitler left the country

before being picked up by the SS. The ones that couldn't leave lived secret lives. The closet thing we can compare it to was Reagan. Remember how isolated you felt when Reagan got elected and it seemed no one wanted to hear anything about the great one, the major difference was Reagan had no secret police or brown shirts to fear. But it was like liberals were alone in seeing that Reagan was a corrupt politician and a lier. In Hitlers Germany that was how it was, no one dared to speak out against him for fear of a midnight visit from Hitlers SS or brown shirts.

Until this day I have yet to hear any Germans mention anything about the Hitler years. it's like everyone died when Hitler took over and came back to life in 1945. I come from a German family, my father is first generation american and even when my grand parents and great uncles came around they never spoke of Germany. I also grew up around German communities and have yet to hear them talk about the Hitler years. I knew a few families that came to america in 1946 to 1950, also and the same silence from them.

[pansypoo53219]

5. i have some old german 'calendar' books

these were published in milwaukee, which is full of krauts, and one from the 20's has a pic of hitler in it. unfortunately it's in german, so i don't know why he's in it.
i sold one from 1917 that had many pictures from WWI battles.

[Mnemosyne]

4. "They thought they were Free -

http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.html

[cmkramer]

6. Growing Up In Hitler's Shadow

This is a children's book (not for little kids, more for the junior high/high school set) about the Hitler Youth movement and about some of the young people who were in it but came to be very disillusioned and ended up protesting. Lots of pictures and interviews.

Interestingly enough, what turned many of them against it was the feeling that they had been lied to. It was like all this stuff was happening, but nothing was getting better. So some of them started putting out fliers telling people not to believe the crap the government was handing them, etc. Many of them were executed.

Amazon link

[Adsos Letter]

7. There is a book by Dietrich Bonhoffer, but I forget the title...

[China_cat]

8. Not particularly a full book about it

and interspersed with segments of his fiction, but the Gunter Grass Reader has some amazing essays and addresses he's given on the subject.

[MedleyMisty]

9. Been reading that type of thing since third grade

Read a good one a few years ago, although it didn't focus just on people who knew what was going on - I think the title was something like Voices from the Third Reich?

What's really interesting is the books written in the thirties after Hitler had come to power but before the war - I found one from the 30s about the connections between big industry and fascism at the used bookstore.

Your library should have a few decent books on the subject.