#Americans: Learn from #history

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)}