ABSTRACT

Leber’s thumbnail portraits bring to life and record the heroism of sixty-four members of the Resistance from every walk of life. Their stories are sometimes spectacular, often quiet and almost commonplace accounts of men and women striving to maintain dignity and decency in the face of the ruthless, total power of the Nazis

part 1|31 pages

Youth

chapter |3 pages

Anton Schmaus

19 April 1910—January 1934

chapter |4 pages

Helmuth Hübener

chapter |3 pages

Hilda Monte

31 July 1914—18 April 1945

chapter |2 pages

Jonathan Stark

8 July 1926—October 1944

chapter |4 pages

Sophie Scholl

9 May 1921—22 February 1943

chapter |4 pages

Heinz Bello

5 September 1920—29 June 1944

chapter |3 pages

Friedrich Karl Klausing

24 May 1920—8 August 1944

chapter |5 pages

Michael Kitzelmann

29 January 1916—12 June 1942

part 2|38 pages

Learning

chapter |4 pages

Carl von Ossietzky

3 October 1889—3 May 1938

chapter |4 pages

Fritz Solmitz

22 October 1893—19 September 1933

chapter |4 pages

Kurt Huber

24 October 1893—13 July 1943

chapter |3 pages

Elisabeth von Thadden

29 July 1890—8 September 1944

chapter |3 pages

Nikolaus Gross

30 September 1898—23 January 1945

chapter |10 pages

Erich Knauf

21 February 1895—2 May 1944

chapter |4 pages

Adolf Reichwein

8 October 1898—20 October 1944

chapter |4 pages

Walther Arndt

8 January 1891—26 June 1944

part 3|40 pages

Friendship

chapter |4 pages

Joachim Gottschalk

chapter |3 pages

Lilo Gloeden

19 December 1903—30 November 1944

chapter |3 pages

Lothar Erdmann

12 October 1888—18 September 1939

chapter |4 pages

Gertrud Seele

22 September 1917—12 January 1945

chapter |4 pages

Ernst Heilmann

13 April 1881—3 April 1940

chapter |4 pages

Willi Häussler

18 April 1907—22 March 1945

chapter |3 pages

Heinrich Jasper

21 August 1875—19 February 1945

chapter |3 pages

Hans Schiftan

8 December 1899—3 November 1941

chapter |3 pages

Johanna Kirchner

24 April 1889—9 June 1944

chapter |4 pages

Wilhelm Leuschner

15 June 1888—29 September 1944

chapter |3 pages

Bernhard Letterhaus

10 July 1894—14 November 1944

part 4|42 pages

The State and the Law

chapter |3 pages

Walter Gempp

13 September 1878—2 May 1939

chapter |4 pages

Martin Gauger

4 August 1905—14 July 1941

chapter |4 pages

Hans von Dohnanyi

1 January 1902—8 April 1945

chapter |4 pages

Maria Terwiel

7 June 1910—5 August 1943

chapter |5 pages

Ernst von Harnack

15 July 1888—3 March 1945

chapter |4 pages

Fritz Elsas

11 July 1890—4 January 1945

chapter |3 pages

Joseph Wirmer

19 March 1901—8 September 1944

chapter |3 pages

Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

15 March 1905—10 August 1944

chapter |3 pages

Erwin Planck

12 March 1893—23 January 1945

chapter |4 pages

Klaus Bonhoeffer

5 January 1901—23 April 1945

chapter |3 pages

Rüdiger Schleicher

14 January 1895—23 April 1945

part 5|35 pages

Tradition

chapter |4 pages

Adolf von Harnier

14 April 1903—12 May 1945

chapter |4 pages

Otto Karl Kiep

7 July 1886—26 August 1944

chapter |3 pages

Karl Friedrich Goerdeler

31 July 1884—2 February 1945

chapter |4 pages

Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin

22 March 1890—9 April 1945

chapter |3 pages

Ludwig Beck

29 June 1880—20 July 1944

chapter |4 pages

Hans Oster

9 August 1888—9 April 1945

chapter |3 pages

Henning von Tresckow

10 January 1901—21 July 1944

chapter |4 pages

Ulrich-Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld

21 December 1902—8 September 1944

chapter |3 pages

Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg

13 November 1904—8 August 1944

part 6|47 pages

Christianity

chapter |4 pages

Erich Klausener

25 January 1885—30 June 1934

chapter |4 pages

Karl Friedrich Stellbrink

28 October 1894—10 November 1943

chapter |5 pages

Bernhard Lichtenberg

3 December 1875—3 November 1943

chapter |5 pages

Edith Stein

12 October 1891—9 August 1942

chapter |4 pages

Max Josef Metzger

3 February 1887—17 April 1944

chapter |4 pages

Friedrich Justus Perels

13 November 1910—23 April 1945

chapter |4 pages

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4 February 1906—5 April 1945

chapter |4 pages

Theo Hespers

12 December 1903—9 September 1943

chapter |3 pages

Alfred Delp

15 September 1907—2 February 1945

chapter |4 pages

Hans-Bernd von Haeften

18 December 1905—15 August 1944

chapter |3 pages

Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

11 March 1907—23 January 1945

part 7|30 pages

Freedom and Order

chapter |5 pages

Carlo Mierendorff

25 March 1897—4 December 1943

chapter |4 pages

Theodor Haubach

15 September 1896—23 January 1945

chapter |4 pages

Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg

5 September 1902—10 August 1944

chapter |4 pages

Adam von Trott zu Solz

9 August 1909—26 August 1944

chapter |5 pages

Julius Leber

16 November 1891—5 January 1945

chapter |4 pages

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

15 November 1907—20 July 1944