How to Flee the Gestapo

In the past few posts we’ve talked about collaborators who supported and joined the Nazis because they believed in Nazism; economic collaborators who were essentially looking out for themselves and […]

In the last posts we talked about single issue collaborators willing to damn everything else for the sake of one idea and  collaborators who agreed with Nazism and had the […]

The most insidious collabos were those who threw in their lot with the Nazis – and the futures of their entire countries – for the sake of a single issue. […]

An old friend of mine said something profound this summer. The lock down had been lifted here in Michigan, so it was possible to move about, although many public gathering […]

I’m tremendously pleased to let you know about the recent publication of The Weidners in Wartime: Letters of Daily Survival and Heroism under Nazi Rule by Janet Holmes Carper. Janet […]

I had a surprising conversation with my 14 year-old son about the book he’s reading for school: Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. The most interesting part went like this: My son […]

The men and women of Dutch-Paris were resisters, meaning that they were among the tiny minority of civilians in Occupied Europe who actively opposed the Nazis. What about everyone else? […]

Seventy-five years ago, during the Christmas season of 1944, the people of western Europe had both reason for hope and reason for fear. They had reason to hope because the […]

Here’s an interesting question that someone asked at one of my talks about Dutch-Paris. If downed Allied aviators and resisters were escaping the Nazis on the trains, why didn’t the […]

With all the dramatic stories of resistance in movies and novels, we tend to forget that resisters were civilians living under an occupation that lasted for four or five years. […]