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Anti-nazi Germans by Merilyn Moos/German Volunteers in the French Resistance by Steve Cushion
Revelatory accounts of courageous Germans who resisted the nazis during WWII
LEST WE FORGET: Memorial plaque to Werner Seelenbinder in Berlin [OFTW/Wikipedia]

A NUMBER of books deal with the German resistance to Hitler but only a few with resistance from the working-class and labour movement, with British communist Allen Merson's pioneering Communist Resistance in nazi Germany the best example.

These two books, published in one volume by Community Languages, can now be added to that list.

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