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German-Jewish Resistance and Gestapo Research
The Example of the Herbert Baum Group
in European Judaism
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Eric Brothers
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Abstract
It was just four days after the botched, amateurish and poorly executed sabotage attack on the anti-Soviet and anti-Semitic ‘Soviet Paradise’ mass exhibition in Berlin's Lustgarten (18 May 1942) that the Gestapo began arresting members of the Herbert Baum group. Resistance historiography has basically ignored the important role that resistance-Gestapo interaction has played within Nazi Germany. This article uses Robert Gellately's important 1991 essay as a starting point in order to begin correcting that omission. Post-war interrogation reports and other primary source material on leading Gestapo figures provide insights into Gestapo interactions with and attitudes towards the German resistance. Primary sources are interpreted in order to recreate an interrogation session at the hands of the Gestapo. Torture methods used by the Gestapo on Baum group members are discussed.
Contributor Notes
Eric Brothers authored Berlin Ghetto: Herbert Baum and the Anti-fascist Resistance (2012). He was an author-curator of the exhibition ‘Juden im Widerstand: Drei Gruppen zwischen Überlebenskampf und politischer Aktion. Berlin 1939–1945’ [Jews in the Resistance: Three groups between the struggle for survival and political action. Berlin 1939–1945], Berlin, 1992–1993.