The good Germans

After 1933, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the Nazis tried to keep their heads down and protect their families. But many ordinary Germans found the courage to resist, in the full knowledge that they could be sentenced to indefinite incarceration, torture or outright execution. The author argues that it was a much greater number than was ever formally recorded. This book focuses on six very different characters. They are not seen in isolation but as part of their families. Each experiences the momentous events of Nazi history as they unfold in their own small lives.