Sophie Scholl, the best-known German resistance fighter against the Nazis, would have turned 100 today. The state-sponsored commemorations of her cover up a simple fact: most resistance fighters against the Nazis were socialists and communists.
The article gets ahistorical with it's distate for Stalin towards the end, pretending that the communists weren't cooperating with the Social Democrats just over ideological grounds; but over all brings attention to a notable issue with the failure of German denazification.
The article gets ahistorical with it's distate for Stalin towards the end, pretending that the communists weren't cooperating with the Social Democrats just over ideological grounds; but over all brings attention to a notable issue with the failure of German denazification.