The first two links below relate directly to the public protest on Rosenstrasse Street in 1943 Nazi Berlin. Nathan Stoltzfus has written a book about the demonstration, and it was also the subject of a recent movie.\u00a0\u00a0There\u00a0are also links\u00a0below to material that describe another successful instance of peaceful resistance to the Nazi regime in WWII.\u00a0 This relates to the unsuccessful attempt to organize the Norwegian educational system along Nazi lines.\u00a0 There was mass non-cooperation and the Nazi government gave in.\u00a0 Gene Sharp has written extensively about nonviolent resistance and non-cooperation as a practical approach for civilian defense.\u00a0 In the way that he envisions this, it has never been tried.\u00a0 Instances have always been quite spontaneous and poorly organized.\u00a0 He suggests that we would need to spend billions of dollars (but still much less than we pay for war) and that many lives might well be lost (but still many fewer lives than would be lost in the war alternative) for the full implementation of such a plan.\u00a0 So it is an imperfect solution, but so is war.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n Public demonstration to successfully save Jewish husbands:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.rinr.fsu.edu\/fallwinter97\/features\/hitler.html<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.owlnet.rice.edu\/~rar4619\/rosenstrasse.html<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n Material about successful resistance to Nazi plans for Norway\u2019s school system is particularly relevant:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/font>http:\/\/www.carolmoore.net\/articles\/nv-action-article.html<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/font>\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/font>More instances of successful peace actions are in the links that follow:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.peacepresence.org\/readings\/Victories.htm<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/nonviolent-resistance<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n