Abstract
The German resistance to National Socialism is a topic which is not very well-known or studied in the Brazilian context and is predominantly associated with the names of individuals who acted on their own or within groups that were composed of like-minded people and confidants. The letters written between 1933 and 1945 by Helmuth James von Moltke and by several other opponents of National Socialism illustrate the biographic dimension of resistance. They reveal, in authentic texts, individual experiences that motivated each opponent to start conflict with the regime. With that in mind, the present work analyses the interface between the subjective and the historic dimension within a selection of letters and discusses the roles of the translator and the editor when transferring them into Portuguese. The translation of these letters can contribute to the dissemination, within the Brazilian context, of the topic “German resistance to National Socialism”.
Keywords
German Resistance; Nacional Socialism; Letters; Translation; Moltke