Mouradian (2021:xx): “In the scholarship on anti-Nazi resistance, a broad, inclusive definition carrying symmetric components now stands as the norm. Sociologist Nechama Tec sees resistance ‘as a set of activities motivated by the desire to thwart, limit, undermine, or end the exercise of oppression over the oppressed.’ Historian Bob Moore defines resistance to Nazis in Western Europe as ‘any activity designed to thwart German plans, or perceived by the occupiers as working against their interests.’ Historian Yehuda Bauer once defined resistance to the Holocaust as ‘any group action consciously taken in opposition to known or surmised laws, actions or intentions directed against the Jews by the Germans and their supporters.’ More recently, he has argued for including individual acts of resistance and referring to the perpetrators as ‘Germans and their collaborators.’”
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