Recommended reading on the Resistance Movements

[Haven]

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
by Eric Metaxas

As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a pastor and author. In this New York Times best-selling biography, Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer’s life—the theologian and the spy—and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. Metaxas presents the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer’s heart-wrenching decision to leave the safe haven of America to return to Hitler’s Germany, and sheds new light on Bonhoeffer’s involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in “Operation 7,” the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland. In a deeply moving narrative, Metaxas uses previously unavailable documents?including personal letters, detailed journal entries, and firsthand personal accounts?to reveal dimensions of Bonhoeffer's life and theology never before seen.

PDF Samples from book: https://ronloneysbooks.files.wordpress. ... etaxas.pdf

[Haven]

Workers’ Resistance against Nazi Germany at the International Labour Conference 1933
Reiner Tosstorff

Eighty years ago, the delegation of national socialist Germany made an early exit from the International Labour Conference. An attempt to install the German Labour Front as legitimate worker representatives, instead of the free trade unions,had failed due to resistance from the Workers’ Group and, not least, the persistent silence maintained by Wilhelm Leuschner, the German unions’ representative on the ILO Governing Body.

PDF: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public ... 226941.pdf

[Jemini]

On Crete...

"The Cretan Runner" George Psychoundakis

"Ill Met By Moonlight" W. Stanley Moss

"Appointment on Crete" Alexander Rendell

[BernardO]

I have researched Spanish Republicans, anti-Nazi Soviets forced to fight in the Wehrmacht and anti-Nazi Germans who had fled Germany before the war and volunteered to work for the British Intelligence Service (SOE). They were given paramilitary, parachute and clandestine warfare training and infiltrated into Germany on sabotage and subversion missions. A number escaped and returned to Britain with vital intel. A few were sent back on another mission....

I am also writing up accounts of a number of German prisoners of war who, on interrogation in British camps (late-1944 to early-1945) detailed their pre-war anti-Nazi activities for which they had been imprisoned but then sent to work with the Wehrmacht. Attacking Hitler Youth members, disrupting their events, making anti-Hitler or anti-Nazi remarks led in some cases to years in camps. There were members of Kittelsbach Piraten and Edelweiss Piraten, Some surrendered to the Allies, others were captured. After further deep interrogation, some were selected and trained by SOE to be infiltrated back into Germany on sabotage, subversion and assassination missions. It was called Operation BONZO. Some interrogation reports include details of their resistance groups as the SOE was keen to learn who might be able to help these 'double agents'.

There was also Operation PERIWIG, a massive disinformation scheme to distract the Gestapo into believing that there was an organised resistance movement in Germany when there wasn't. Part of the scheme included parachuting German Bonzos to establish links with key personnel who they were told were in the resistance but weren't. The hope was that they would be captured and the persons they were to contact (often Nazis) were then falsely incriminated.....

Given the niche interest, British publishers won't take them so I have self-published some and am working on others. Search for Bonzos on www.lulu.com/spotlight/coprolite