Commentary: Finding inspiration in an anti-Nazi resistance group

As a historian of the Third Reich, I have found the comparisons made with increasing frequency between Trump's America and Nazi Germany deeply disturbing. Even subtracting the Holocaust from the equation, it's obvious that the Nazi dictatorship and American democracy in its Trumpian incarnation are utterly different animals. Congress has not been suspended. Paramilitary groups have not been given free rein on the streets. Concentration camps have not become an accepted part of law enforcement, however grim the conditions in detention centers on the border.

And yet, the many troubling challenges to democratic norms and the cruel treatment of immigrants in the last 2 1/2 years have caused