The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945

4/10/2026

This is quite a fascinating retrospective on some of the citizens of Germany who, throughout the 1930s and the Second World War, worked to help the Jews to escape and latterly to remove Adolf Hitler from the leadership of the Nazi movement. Using contemporaneous interviews from many of those related to these people, as well as an impressive selection of archive this doesn't just offer us a chronology of who did what, when and where as the German state fell almost effortlessly under the control of the fascists, but it focusses more on the activities of many people who were determined to do what they could to thwart or at least mitigate this regime. Some of the scheming and plotting will doubtless be more familiar, like the Von Stauffenberg plan made more famous later by Tom Cruise in 'Valky