• 34. ~ ~ ~ [Anti-Nazi Resistance in Berlin: 6 Titles] ~ ~ ~ Bothe-von Richthofen, Felicitas

WIDERSTAND IN WILMERSDORF. [COVER TITLE]. WIDERSTAND 1933-1945: WILMERSDORF.SCHRIFTENREIHE ÜBER DEN WIDERSTAND IN BERLIN VON 1933 BIS 1945. HEFT 7

Berlin: Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, 1993. Item #43370

1st edition. Original photographic paper wrappers, 8vo 192 pages. Includes illustrations. 22 cm. In German. Title translates as, "Resistance in Wilmersdorf [a neighborhood in Berlin]. A Series on the Resistance in Berlin from 1933-1945. Part 7.”
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-182) and indexes.
ISBN: 3926082038; 9783926082039

“In her 192-page book, “Resistance in Wilmersdorf"...Felicitas Bothe-von-Richthofen documents the many acts people were able to undertake against a criminal social system. The chapter 'Unsung Heroes' recounts the stories of Berliners who hid refugees: '...and the many who came under the code name 'Black,' who stayed with me for one or more nights or received other assistance because, as undocumented immigrants, they had no ration cards. They all needed clothing. Sometimes they came simply to wash the clothes they were wearing and to wash themselves.' Ms. Blochwitz, known by the code name 'Black,' helped many refugees. But she was not alone; in Berlin, approximately 1,400 people who found shelter with private individuals survived the Nazi terror.
In Wilmersdorf, the artists' colony at Laubenheimer Platz (today: Ludwig-Barnay-Platz ) was considered a place of politically conscious confrontation with fascism. The 'Professional Association of German Stage Performers' and the 'Professional Association of German Writers' built three apartment blocks for their members in the late 1920s. By the spring of 1933, over 300 artists and left-wing intellectuals lived there, including Ernst Bloch and Johannes R. Becher . Nazi jargon for this residential area was the 'Red Block.' To protect themselves from SA members, the artists organized a self-defense force. Solidarity within the artists' colony soon came to an end after January 30, 1933, and many residents fled into exile.
Flight is certainly not the most extreme form of protest. Hildegard Henschel , the wife of the last chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin during the Nazi era, observed the deportation of the first Jews from the Grunewald S-Bahn and freight station in October 1941: 'SS officers, some equipped with riding whips, supervised the loading of the cars. The victims’ composure was admirable; everyone knew that resistance was impossible, the only possible form of defiance was suicide. But if suicide failed, it later led to accelerated evacuation.’” [Translated from the German]. (Thomas Nagel in TAZ, December 22, 1993)

OCLC: 35138666
Anti-fascist ex-library copy, with stamps and spine label. Otherwise Very Good Condition. (Holo2-163-20).

Price: $100.00