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Rationalization, Racism, and Resistenz: Recent Studies of Work and the Working Class in Nazi Germany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Mary Nolan
Affiliation:
New York University

Abstract

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Review Essay
Copyright
Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1995

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1. This is the classic definition of Broszat, Martin, “Resistenz und Widerstand, Eine Zwischenbilanz des Forschungsprojekts ‘Widerstand und Verfolgung in Bayern 1933–1945,” in Nach Hitler: Der schwierige Umgang mit unserer Geschichte: Beiträge von Martin Borszat ed. Graml, Hermann and Henke, Klaus-Dietmar (Munich, 1987), 7576.Google Scholar

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