Nazism
Hitler's force - Ernst Bloch
Ernst Bloch looks at the rise of Nazism and the changing class composition in Germany, following the defeat of the German Revolution.
At first we coldly ignored it. Shrugged our shoulders at the malicious pack that crawled forth. At the red posters with the driveling sentences, but the knuckledusters behind them. That which roughly stepped to our bedside early in the morning to demand our papers, stuck itself up as a party here. Jews are forbidden to enter the hall.
Anti-semitism and National Socialism - Moishe Postone
No functionalist explanation of the Holocaust and no scapegoat theory of anti-Semitism can even begin to explain why, in the last years of the war, when the German forces were being crushed by the Red Army, a significant proportion of vehicles was deflected from logistical support and used to transport Jews to the gas chambers. The specificity of the Holocaust requires a much more determinate mediation in order even to approach its understanding.
Anti-Semitism and National Socialism
By Moishe Postone
Dutch Council Communism and Van der Lubbe Burning the Reichstag - The question of "exemplary acts"
Philippe Bourrinet on the reaction of council communists in Holland to Marinus Van der Lubbe burning down the Reichstag in Germany, and on propagandistic acts in general.
Feb 2003
It was the significance of the young Dutch council communist Van der Lubbe's torching of the Reichstag (27 Feb. 1933), more than Hitler's coming to power, which focused the debates within Dutch council communism. The latter was profoundly divided on the question of 'exemplary acts' and of individual violence against symbols of bourgeois order.
Anarchist activity in Nazi Germany
Some notes on the activity of anarchists in Germany immediately preceding and soon after the Nazis' gained power, including accounts of attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
While containing several inaccuracies, we reproduce the article here in full. A discussion about factual errors herein is below the article.
1921-1944: The crushing of the FAUD by Hitler
An account of the decline and crushing of the anarcho-syndicalist trade union the FAUD in Hitler's Germany.
Anarchists against Hitler: The Underground FAUD in the Rhineland
1943-1944: The CNT and the liberation of Paris
Information about the role that members of the Spanish anarchist trade union the CNT played in the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation.
"ALGERIAN
SOUTH-EASTERN FRONT, NORTHERN GROUP, NUM, 93D/31,
M’DILLA,12TH APRIL, 1943.
Extract of order No. 38.
Colonel Delmay of Garenne, commanding the northern group
of the south-eastern Algerian front dictates:
White Rose documents
All the leaflets published by the White Rose group of anti-fascists in Germany, including other documents and texts related to the group
Capitalism at Work : The Bombing of Dresden - February 1945
Beyond the Celebration Anniversary : Capitalism at Work : The Bombing of Dresden - February 1945 - Communism #10
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The Workers' Opposition in Nazi Germany - Tim Mason
The Workers' Opposition in Nazi Germany
By Tim Mason
History Workshop Journal # 11, Spring 1981
I want to begin with a distinction - the distinction between the political resistance of the German working class to nazi rule, and what I want to call the workersà opposition.
Nazism and the Working Class - Sergio Bologna
Italian autonomist Sergio Bologna discusses the rise of Nazism and its relationship to the German working class.
NAZISM AND THE WORKING CLASS - 1933-93
by Sergio Bologna
translated by Ed Emery
[Paper presented at the Milan Camera del Lavoro, 3 June 1993]
