Grashoff, U; (2021) Gefahr von innen. [Book]. (1st ed.). Wallstein Verlag: Göttingen, Germany.

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Abstract

The communist resistance against National Socialism in practice: full of tension and contradictory. Treason had devastating effects on the communist resistance to Nazism. It was a peripheral matter, imposed on the party and at the same time deadly serious, which could not only decide the life of the individual, but existentially threatened the scattered remnants of the Communist Party organization. Udo Grashoff undertakes the first systematic analysis of the manifestations of betrayal in the illegally active KPD in the "Third Reich". The focus is on the communist defectors in 1933, the collaboration of employees of the KPD intelligence service with the Gestapo, the resignation of emigrated communists and the attitude of the KPD to the killings of spies. The author examines a wide range of behaviors ranging from unscrupulous, from torture to simulated treason. Numerous stories of weakness, violence, tragedy and baseness make visible the blind spots of the normative image that was conveyed in the GDR in particular, but not only, by the "anti-fascist resistance struggle".

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