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bulletRiester, Albert. Gegen den Strom [Against the Current]. Munich: Universitas Verlag, 1987. Riester is best known for being one of Hans Hirzel's friends who (evidently) betrayed him to the Gestapo. While Riester was not one of the two Stuttgarter whose duplicity eventually landed Hirzel in prison, there still remains an aura of distaste (for lack of a nicer word) around Riester's storyline. He seems to have wanted to be a good dissident and a good Nazi, all in the same breath.

I found the book difficult to comprehend. Grammatically it's not especially complicated. Nor did Riester utilize an excessively large vocabulary. Rather, his thoughts seem so disjointed and self-serving as to border on incoherency. Besides his tales of Hans Scholl as a Hitler Youth, Riester's book is valuable on another level: He provides us with an living, breathing example of a "Mitlaeufer," a person who may not have agreed completely with the Nazis but was happy enough to do whatever it took to placate the brown hordes. In other words, his life stands in stark contrast to his contemporaries whom we have come to respect as the White Rose.

 

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