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The astonishing story of the aristocrat who hid her #Jewish lover in a sofa bed – and other #German rebels who defied the #Nazis

There were Germans who defied the Third Reich from the very start and throughout the Nazi #dictatorship. In the immediate aftermath of the #war, one allied investigator estimated that, during the 12 long years of Nazism, 3 million Germans had been in and out of #prisons or concentration camps for crimes of dissent, sometimes punished for nothing more than a #critical remark.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/06/astonishing-story-german-rebels-defied-nazis-jonathan-freedland-the-traitors-circle?CMP=Fediverse

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The astonishing story of the aristocrat who hid her Jewish lover in a sofa bed – and other German rebels who defied the Nazis

From a diplomat who embraced the exiled Albert Einstein to a schoolteacher who helped ‘non-Aryan’ students flee, these remarkable individuals refused to bend the knee to Hitler – only to be dramatically betrayed. What made them risk it all?

^{Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian)}

12 October 1892 | Edith Stein was born in Wrocław. She was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism, became a theologian & a Carmelite nun. She was murdered in Auschwitz in August of 1942.

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Content warning: Treblinka Uprising; Holocaust Click to open/close

Today in Labor History August 2, 1943: Jewish prisoners revolted at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of the Nazi death camps, where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months. In early 1943, an underground Jewish resistance formed at Treblinka. One of the organizers, Dr. Julian Chorążycki, killed himself with poison when he was caught prior to the uprising, so the Nazis couldn’t torture the plot details out of him. The conspirators raided the arsenal, stealing rifles, grenades and pistols. They set buildings on fire, attacked the main gate and tried to climb the fence. German and Ukrainian guards opened fire with machine guns, resulting in near-total slaughter. About 200 Jews escaped, but half of them were caught and killed.

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