I should like to think that had I been around at the time I would have been a convinced anti- Nazi engaged in the underground resistance fight. However, I know really that I would have been as confused and felt as helpless as most of the people I am writing about Ian Kershaw
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The author, John le Carre, in his book "A Most Wanted Man," talks about how he feels he would have been in the resistance.

Source: Popular Opinion & Political Dissent In The Third Reich: Bavaria 193345

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