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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@lukeberryman.bsky.social joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social today to discuss his new book Resisting Nazism: True Stories of Resistance to the World's Most Dangerous Ideology, from 1920 to the Present, new from @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excited to be running an AMA on r/AskHistorians next week! 👇

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Hmmm. I think that I'd prefer words like "vintage" or "seasoned," possibly "ripened."

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Magdalen College @magdalenoxford.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Nearly time for the launch of @lukeberryman.bsky.social (2004) new book: Resisting Nazism. It'll be released for sale on 2 April. If you'd like to attend the launch at Backstory bookshop in Balham on 1 April, feel free to @ Luke in the comments :) Congrats Luke! Looking forward to reading.

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Magdalen College @magdalenoxford.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

From infiltrating the SS to 1920s caricatures, Resisting Nazism by alumnus Dr Luke Berryman (2004) explores a century of standing against hatred. 📖 www.bloomsbury.com/us/resisting...

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Resisting Nazism

Nazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try and expose the Holo…

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

LA readers can visit the Barnes & Noble at The Grove to hear @lukeberryman.bsky.social, author of “Resisting Nazism,” discuss his new book. 📆 Sun. Feb. 22, 11:00 am–12:30 pm (PST) 🔗 bit.ly/4aKwmsb 📚💙 #HistorySky @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Check out our #nonfiction books and authors that are hot this week! 📚 bit.ly/4jM73YT 💙 #BookRecs @lukeberryman.bsky.social

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It's publication day for "Resisting Nazism" in the United States! 🥳 And... it's already sold out on Amazon. But you can still get copies from Bloomsbury! 👇 www.bloomsbury.com/us/resisting... #resistance #holocaust #history #neveragainisnow #books

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Want to read more? You can preorder "Resisting Nazism" from Bloomsbury USA here! 👇 www.bloomsbury.com/us/resisting... #resistance #compassion #culture #collaboration #nonviolence #arts (7/7)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

🎶 Creativity is the beating heart of resistance. "I've been head-over-heels in love with music my entire life," Arno told me. "I still am. I spend hours a day listening to music." Let the arts fuel you! (6/7)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

🤝 Cross-community collaboration can foster positive change. To achieve his goals, Arno actively collaborates with victims of violent extremism - giving them a voice and a chance to share their story. (5/7)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

🕊️ True courage = responding to aggression with compassion. "If I think about resistance, then I think about resisting the provocation to violence," Arno said. "What does take courage - true courage - is responding to aggression with compassion.'" (4/7)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

💡 Find "gray areas" and throw yourself into them. Arno used the term "gray areas" to describe spaces in which we expose ourselves to cultures, opinions, and traditions other than our own. "Violent extremism can't function in gray areas. It can't function if there's curiosity or wonder." (3/7)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Here's a sneak preview of four things that I learned about resistance from interviewing Arno Michaelis (once a violent far-right extremist and now a leading peace advocate) for the book: (2/7)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

My book "Resisting Nazism" is out on January 22nd! 📖 Plenty of us are despairing at the state of the world, and it's so hard to know what to do about it... (1/7)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The cover art for "Resisting Nazism" has dropped! 📖 And the book is now available to pre-order 👇 www.bloomsbury.com/us/resisting...

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Thanks for sharing these wonderful words - they chime with so much of what I've tried to communicate in my book. I'd love to have a link to your piece about your family friend if it's available online! ✌️🕊️

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Thanks for reading the article, and for including these great suggestions + links! I'm glad that the ideas resonated with you ✌️

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Thanks for commenting, Kevin. I'm glad that the article resonated with you, and I hope that you'll enjoy the book once it's out! 📖✌️

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Thanks for commenting! In the book, I try and capture how monumentally difficult it was for survivors to share their stories in Frankfurt. The court environment was often unsupportive, and sometimes willfully hostile. The people who saw it through - like your Dad - deserve to be well-remembered. ✌️❤️

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Thanks for commenting! Empathy and humility were certainly two shared qualities in every single resister that I researched for my book. ❤️✌️

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

As for "the now": when I began working on it, I hoped that it would be an interesting collection of forgotten historical stories. But, as the political landscape in the US began to shift, they suddenly gained more urgency... I hope that you'll consider reading it once it's out! 🙂✌️ (2/2)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Thanks for commenting! Yes, most of the examples that I gave in the article are from the post-1945 period - but the book itself has twelve chapters, the first six of which are about resistance between the 1920s and 1940s. (1/2)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Through seventy hours of painstaking conversation, she eventually achieved something that the courts never did: she got him to offer a confession of guilt. Hope you'll consider reading more about her in my book once it's out! ✌️🙂 (2/2)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I'd argue that it's possible to empathize with the other side while steadfastly denouncing and rejecting their beliefs. One example that comes to mind is Gitta Sereny, a journalist who interviewed Franz Stangl, a Nazi mass murderer, in the years after the War. (1/2)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Those points include nationalist racism; misogyny; a disdain for democracy, the law, and the state; a willingness to use violence as a political tool; and a fundamental disregard for facts and truth. (2/2)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

As I argue in my book, the "alt-right" and Nazism aren't always the same - but they have enough points of overlap to justify comparing them... (1/2)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Thanks for posting this. As one interviewee in my book said to me, "the smallest action is always worthwhile." Don't lose hope! ✊

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Thanks for commenting! Sebastian Haffner did write his book in the 1930s, although I appreciate that I could have made that clearer in the article. My book has twelve chapters; the first six deal with resistance to Nazism between the 1920s-40s. Hope you'll consider reading it once it's out! 📖✌️

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Also, the book is less about the Nazi dictatorship, more about Nazism as an ideology - which was born in Munich in 1920, and which has survived up to the present. Hope you'll consider reading it once it's out! 🙂✌️ (2/2)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Thanks for commenting! Of course, you're right that the Nazi dictatorship was defeated by war - although, in the book, I try to show that there were resisters who actively undermined it in ways that (sometimes) stopped it from achieving all its goals. (1/2)

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Check out my latest article, published in @theguardian.com 👇

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Dale was important for us at the tail-end of last season - it's weird that he's figured so little in the Championship. The situation with Goodwin is weirder still. With Harris playing so poorly for the last 10-11 games, you'd think that a £400k signing would at least be given a chance.

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Neil Barsky is wrong. RFK's opposition to "big pharma" is inseparable from his magical belief system, which is anti-fact and anti-science. His alignment with more mainstream views in one area is just a coincidence. It mustn't distract us from the monstrous threat that he poses to US public health.

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RFK Jr has articulated what our Democratic and Republican leaders have largely ignored: our healthcare system is a national disgrace hiding in plain sight

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Luke Berryman @lukeberryman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Clambered onto these shores from the steaming swamp of Twitter; now to clean myself up and see how it goes.

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