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June 26, 2005
Class differences and post-WWII stories
This in an interesting article about a resistance group in Nazi Germany. They think one of the reasons we've heard of the tiny (5 or 6 member) White Rose group is that they were university students while the Edelweiss Pirates (they're claiming 5,000 members) were working class. Their Communist background probably didn't help in late 1940s West Germany either, though it doesn't explain why the group wouldn't have been lionezed in East Germany. Here's the Wikipedia article, which is rather more interesting than the news story.
This comes immediately after the opening of the Paris police files that make it clearer (not perfectly clear - the police managed to destroy a bunch of documents) how collaborative the French state was with the Occupiers, undercutting yet another myth of the Resistance. There's still a lot to learn here.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 26, 2005 8:00 AM