As I have been researching my latest novel- A wartime novel, set on the German front- I have learned that all Germans were not evil, and were not necessarily Nazis. Many people were discontent with what they had been taught, with what they were following.
Colonel Stauffenberg was one. He was part of a group-one of the last-that tried to assassinate Hitler. Watch the movie Valkyrie to see a semi-fictionalized account of the events that led Stauffenberg to help the group with the assassination, and what happened after.
Another is the Hubener group. This was a trio of high school aged boys; Helmuth Hubener, Rudolf Wobbe and Karl-Heinz Schnibbe. They distributed anti-nazi leaflets; they were the youngest resistors of WWII. Some good accounts about these valiant young men are: When Truth was Treason, The boy who Dared (Susan Campbell Bartoletti), Truth and conviction, and Resistance Movement.
