The Plots Against Hitler, by Danny Orbach

Author: Danny Orbach. Review by Reg Naulty

by Reg Naulty 19th February 2021

When people learn that Quakers are pacifist, they commonly ask what we would have done about Adolf Hitler, by which they mean, how would we have resisted him? It is instructive therefore, to find out how people living in Hitler’s regime did it. Such a question is given additional interest by our awareness of the fragility of democracy, which has been heightened by the presidency of Donald Trump, who showed how democracies can slide towards autocracy.