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The Sociology of Resistance against National Socialism: The Example of Duesseldorf 1933 to 1945

GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA8001 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.8001
Abstract: Research on resistance under National Socialism with the example of diverse forms of deviation from the national socialist system of norms in daily life by the ´small man´. Topics: a) Types of divergent behavior in a totalitarian political system, social and ecological determinants for individual protest behavior and collective resistance against such a system, the population´s reporting behavior (especially denunciation with the Gestapo) and the gathering of information by the controlling authority (especially the Gestapo and the security service of the SS), political penetration of ... more
Topics: HISTORY

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 1933 - 1945
Geographic coverage: German Reich (1871-1945) (DXDE), Duesseldorf
Universe: 825 persons from the Duesseldorf area file of the Gestapo regional headquarters (containing roughly 5000 persons)
Number of Units: 825
Sampling Procedure: Multi-stage systematic random sample (partly along socio-metric chains through snowball-sampling)
Mode of Data Collection: a) File and document analysis: record-linkage of the Gestapo files to the different categories of court files; reconstruction of parts of files originally belonging together but maintained in different archives; systematic comparison of information in different file categories on the same event. b) Carrying out 10 retrospective interviews. S ... more
Analysis System(s): SPSS, Stata
Number of Variables: 335

Bibliographic information

Principal Investigator/ Authoring Entity, Institution: Mann, Reinhard - Institut für angewandte Sozialforschung, Universität zu Köln
Publication year: 1990
DOI: 10.4232/1.8001
Study number: ZA8001
Publisher: GESIS Data Archive

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Current Version: 1.0.0, 2010-04-13, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.8001
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Reference publications

Publications: Mann, Reinhard: Protest und Kontrolle im Dritten Reich: Nationalsozialistische Herrschaft im Alltag einer rheinischen Großstadt. Frankfurt a.M., New York: Campus-Verlag 1987 (Studien zur Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, Bd. 6).
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Mann, Reinhard (1990). The Sociology of Resistance against National Socialism: The Example of Duesseldorf 1933 to 1945. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. ZA8001 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.8001.

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