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Approximately 100,000 people from nearly every country in Europe were imprisoned at Flossenbürg between 1938 and 1945, and 30,000 perished.

My review of "White Knights in the Black Orchestra" by Tom Dunkel, which tells of the anti-Nazi resistance that led to the execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The conspiracy had a greater scope, reach, and effectiveness than I realized. And it was a conservative resistance motivated largely by the Christian faith. (A free post.)

Nazism is often depicted as some kind of extreme “conservatism” when, as history shows, it was essentially radical and destructive of traditional freedoms and faith. In fact, from its very inception, some of the most conservative elements in German society fought for its overthrow.

Germans resisting Hitler included Sophie Scholl and Claus von Stauffenberg, whose Operation Valkyrie — a plot to assassinate the Führer — failed.

Tom Dunkel's 'White Knights in the Black Orchestra' chronicles the efforts of the German resistance to fight Hitler.