How to Flee the Gestapo

I mentioned in an earlier blog that the Nazis accepted guilt by association as sufficient cause for extreme punishment. This went so far that they had a policy of punishing […]

In addition to courage, conviction, and intelligence, resisters needed a certain amount of luck. Dutch-Paris is full of stories of someone ringing the wrong doorbell only to be told that […]

There’s no question that being active in the resistance to the Nazis and their collaborators took courage, firm principles and a quick wit. What, exactly, those looked like differed from […]

Let’s continue our discussion of the shapes of resisters’ daily lives. Today, going underground vs. working from home. Going underground meant breaking all contact with your family, neighborhood and place […]

Let’s dive deeper into the factors that shaped the practical realities of a resister’s daily life. We’ll start with what sort of illegal work an individual was doing. Broadly speaking […]

In my last post I wrote about how resisters in their own small community had to consider the current and future needs of that community. But there were, of course, […]

When you’re thinking about resistance during the Second World War, you have to remember that most of it happened within communities where people lived and expected to continue living. In […]

War does not spare children. They are injured, maimed and killed by bullets, missiles and shrapnel. They spend anxious nights in underground shelters while their homes are bombed. They go […]

If you’re thinking about the Second World War and especially about the resistance, you have to keep in mind how immensely complicated life got when the Nazis occupied an area. […]

In the last post our valiant Pole Wyssogota had agreed to take Dutchmen and aviators to Spain in cooperation with a Dutch escape line based in Brussels which had connections […]