Women's History Month - Those Who Resisted
From the Writer's Almanac: It was on this day in 1933 that the Nazi Party won 44 percent of the vote in German parliamentary elections , enabling it to join with the Nationalists to gain a slight majority in the Reichstag. Within three weeks, the Nazi-dominated Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which gave Hitler dictatorial powers and ended the Weimar Republic in Germany. Let's honor the women who worked in the Resistance at that time and during WWII, my family included. Here are a few books that tell the story of some of those people: