{"id":316,"date":"2021-07-14T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2021-07-14T16:50:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:50:40","slug":"german-anti-nazis-and-the-british-empire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/?page_id=316","title":{"rendered":"German Anti-Nazis and the British Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Anti-Nazis-and-Empire.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-314\" src=\"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cover-empire-700x1014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cover-empire-700x1014.jpg 700w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cover-empire-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cover-empire-768x1113.jpg 768w, https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/cover-empire.jpg 775w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Special Operations Executive, Deserters from the German Army and Partisan Movements in Occupied Europe<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nby Merilyn Moos<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Anti-Nazis-and-Empire.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free download from here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Active anti-Nazi Germans from within the working class movement who chose an often uneasy alliance with the British military in an attempt to stop Nazism. Rather than being a \u2018fifth column\u2019 or the \u2018enemy within\u2019 as they were frequently presented, many of these anti-Nazi Germans were more ferociously anti-Nazi than many at the time in the UK. With the wisdom of hindsight, it might appear evident that defeating Nazi Germany was such a priority that allying with the British state was an obvious decision but, in the years immediately before the outbreak of war, many on the left saw the impending war as an imperialist war, indeed an extension of World War 1, as much as a war against Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the German refugees who fought with or alongside the British armed forces were far from unambiguously pro-British. The tensions within British policy between being anti-fascist and pro-imperialist, are sharply exposed during the Greek civil war when the German deserters who were fighting with the partisans alongside the British then fought with the partisans against the British.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Operations Executive, Deserters from the German Army and Partisan Movements in Occupied Europe by Merilyn Moos Free download from here&#8230; Active anti-Nazi Germans from within the working class&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-316","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}