The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero

[Mike 03]

1. Thanks for posting this. I love this type of micro-history.

What you wrote about gleaning practical advice from resistors and just plain ordinary citizens who were not down with Nazism is so true. They lived through this and thanks to modern historians we can read their thoughts, their logic and the actions they undertook at the time.

A few books I read while trying to imagine what this could be like are:

Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany by Marion Kaplan

What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany, an Oral History, by Eric Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband

Life and Death in the Third Reich, by Peter Fritzsche

Maybe it's just me but I find SO much value in the stories, diaries, recollections. They inspire and inform and help modern citizens to contemplate the unthinkable and imagine how they'd respond.