Flight and Concealment

Susanna Schrafstetter is Professor of history at the University of Vermont. Her work focuses on Jews who went into hiding in Germany during the Holocaust, on German-Jewish refugees in Fascist Italy, and on the legacy of Nazism in postwar Germany. She is editor (with Jürgen Zarusky and Thomas Schlemmer) of After Nazism: Relaunching Careers in Germany and Austria.Allison Brown has been a freelance translator from German into English of scholarly books and essays, and exhibition texts and catalogues, since 1988.

"With this book Susanna Schrafstetter has written one of the most thoughtful, well-researched, and genuinely comparative historical studies on rescue that I know of, and one of the only ones to reflect on restitution, postwar trajectories, and the place in postwar Germany for the survivors. Not only is it one of the most nuanced historical studies to appear on rescue in Germany, it is an essential read for historians of the topic in any national context."—Mark Roseman, Distinguished Professor of History, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University"This is a rather remarkable book. It stands out from the hundreds of other books published every year on the Holocaust by focusing on a group of victims who have been somewhat neglected. There exists already some literature on hidden Jews in Berlin, but we have no study as detailed as this on another major German city like Munich. In terms of the critical analysis of all her sources and the existing literature, this study could stand as a model for undergraduate or graduate teaching. Beyond that, the searing stories of suffering, and the touching tales of assistance offered, make this a book that will appeal to a broader non-academic audience as well."—Geoffrey J. Giles, University of Florida"This extraordinarily careful exploration of a hitherto neglected aspect of German and Jewish history during World War II and the in the decades after the war will be of great interest to both scholars and those with a general interest Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, the occupation period, and the development of the Federal Republic of German since 1949."—Gerhard L. Weinberg, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsMapsIntroduction1. Under Nazi Rule: Jews in Munich, 1933–19412. The Deportations3. Early Escapes: Fall 1941–Summer 19424. The Conclusion of the Mass Deportations in 1943: A Second Wave of Escapes?5. Evading the Final Deportations in February 19456. Dangers and Failed Escapes, 1941–1945: Denunciation, Exploitation, Discovery, Illness7. Specific Groups of Helpers and Those They Helped: Hidden Children and Church Aid8. To and from Munich: Regional, National, and Transnational Escape Routes and Connections9. After 1945: Reconstruction or New Beginning?10. Postwar Encounters11. Compensation for Surviving U-Boats, Their Family Members, and Their Helpers12. U-Boats and Their Helpers in Postwar German SocietyConclusionBibliographyIndex