Nathan Stoltzfus is Rintels Professor of Holocaust Studies at Florida State University. His most recent publication is Hitler's Compromises: Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany (New Haven: Yale, 2016).Birgit Maier-Katkin is Associate Professor of German at Florida State University. She is author of Silence and Acts of Memory: A Postwar Discourse on Literature, History, Anna Seghers, and Women in the Third Reich (Bucknell University Press, 2007).

"This is a solid book and a welcome addition to the literature. It should find a place on the reading lists of any course dealing with dictatorships, totalitarianism, or twentieth-century German history." HISTORY: Reviews of New Books"Protest in Hitler's National Community: Popular Unrest and the Nazi Response is comprised of nine erudite and instructive articles that are impressively written works of seminal scholarship... [It] is strongly recommended for academic library 20th-Century German History reference collections in general, and Nazi History supplemental studies reading lists in particular." Midwest Book Review

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: Nazi Responses to Popular Protest in the ReichNathan StoltzfusChapter 1. Aspects of German Procedures in the HolocaustGerhard L. WeinbergChapter 2. Women and Protest in Wartime Nazi GermanyJill StephensonChapter 3. The Demonstrations in Support of the Evangelical Land Bishop Hans Meiser: A Successful Protest against the Nazi Regime?Christiane KullerChapter 4. The Catholic Church, Bishop von Galen and 'Euthanasia'Winfried SuessChapter 5. The Possibilities of Protest in the Third Reich: The Witten Demonstration in ContextJulie TorrieChapter 6. The 'Legend' of Women's Resistance in the RosenstrasseKatharina von KellenbachChapter 7. Auschwitz, the 'Fabrik-Aktion', Rosenstrasse: A Plea for a Change of PerspectiveJoachim NeanderChapter 8. The 1943 Rosenstrasse Protest and the ChurchesAntonia LeugersChapter 9. Protest and Aftermath: Popular Protest in Nazi German HistoryNathan StoltzfusAfterword: Protest and ResistanceDavid Clay LargeAPPENDIX: TRANSLATED DOCUMENTSAppendix I: The Situation of the 'Mischlinge' in Germany, Mid-March 1943, by Gerhard LehfeldtAppendix II: Decree Regarding the Removal of Jews from Frankfurt/Oder Factories, February 25, 1943Appendix III: April 1, 1943 OSS document identifying Protest in Berlin with the Interruption of Deportation of JewsAppendix IV: Translated Excerpts from the Diaries of Joseph Goebbels, Die Tagebuecher von Joseph Goebbels, ed. Elke Froelich (Munich: K.G. Saur)Appendix V: Excerpts from testimonies of women who protested for their Jewish husbands in response to a request from the Berlin Bureau of Reparations, 1955.Appendix VI: Excerpts of Individual Sections and Paragraphs from Legal Texts and Ordinances (1933-1941)Appendix VII: RSHA Guidelines for Deportation to Auschwitz, ;Berlin, February 20, 1943Appendix VIII: Documents of the SS at Auschwitz from early March 1943 indicating their "pull" for workers from Berlin and their expectation that more working Jews (intermarried) would be sent from BerlinAppendix IX: Documents in response to the Witten Protest and from 1944 indicating Hitler's continuing refusal to use force against "racial" civilians who refused to follow regime guidelines for evacuating bombed areas.Appendix X: Excerpts from the recent German press representing controversies about public protest by ordinary Germans in the Third Reich.Select BibliographyIndex