Contending with Hitler is a distillation of recent scholarship on Germany's domestic resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. Consisting of twelve original essays, it sets forth the issues that specialists and laymen alike must keep in mind as they try to understand the nature and significance of this complex problem.

1. Editor's introduction David Clay Large; 2. Willy Brandt; 3. Theodore Ellenoff; 4. Fritz Stern; 5. A social and historical typology of the German opposition to Hitler Martin Broszat; 6. Working-class resistance: problems and options Detlav J. K. Peukert; 7. Choice and courage Claudia Koonz; 8. Resistance and opposition: the example of the German Jews Konrad Kwiet; 9. From reform to resistance: Carl Goerdeler's 1938 memorandum Michael Kruger-Charle; 10. The conservative resistance Peter Steinbach; 11. The Kreisau circle and the 20th of July Thomas Childers; 12. The Seco; 13. The solitary witness: no mere footnote to resistance studies Klemens Von Klemperer; 14. The German resistance in comparative perspective Charles Maier; 15. The political legacy of the German resistance: an historical critique Hans Mommsen; 16. Uses of the Past: the anti-Nazi resistance legacy in the Federal Republic of Germany David Clay Large.