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Hammerstein, N: Aus dem Freundeskreis der »Weißen Rose«
- Language: German
- ISBN-10: 9783835313842
- ISBN-13: 3835313843
Book Description
Otmar Hammerstein (1917-2003), the author’s older brother, belonged to the circle of friends around the ‘White Rose’ and participated intensively in the activities and discussions of this circle. Based on his estate, the historian Notker Hammerstein provides an accurate insight into the sphere of activity of the group. It traces how the cultural imprints and the exchange with scholars and artists strengthened the opponent to the Nazi rule and influenced the decision to active action in some people. After the arrest of the resistance group around the Scholl siblings in February 1943, Otmar Hammerstein got into the target of the Gestapo. His transfer to the Netherlands deprived him of immediate danger. There he joined the active resistance against the German occupiers. Notker Hammerstein reports on this as well as about his brother’s view after the end of the war on his own actions and on the public handling of the resistance.
