The Moral Imperative: New Essays on the Ethics of Resistance in National Socialist Germany, 1933-1945 explores a number of the moral codes which inspired, justified, and sustained the resisting conscience in the Third Reich. This collection of essays, by seven of the top scholars working on the history of the German resistance, including Klemens von Klemperer, Peter Hoffmann, and Beate Ruhm von Oppen, relates the contributors' expressions to the cultural and institutional realities of a totalitarian state.