Circles of Resistance : Jewish, leftist, and youth dissidence in Nazi Germany

Chronicles resistance efforts by disparate subculture groups of German Jews, leftist dissidents, and youths inspired by the White Rose. After tracing the origins, actions, and fate of these groups, he discusses how their efforts were denigrated by Cold War propaganda that narrowly defined 'resistance' as pertaining only to those who had attempted to assassinate Hitler; after all, many members were Communists, notably German-Jew Herman Baum, who was memorialized in East Germany as a friend of the Soviet Union.