A thematically arranged text illustrating popular resistance to Nazism in Germany from 1930-1945, and the effect of Nazism on everyday life. Housden combines a lucid, synthesised analysis together with a wide selection of source material.

Chapter 1 National Socialism; Chapter 2 The workers; Chapter 3 The churches; Chapter 4 Youth; Chapter 5 Conservative élites; Chapter 6 Germany's Jewish citizens; Chapter 7 Exploring the inexplicable; Chapter 8 Opposition, resistance and German society; Further reading; BibliographyIndex;