Author: Carolsue HollandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-Nazi movement
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Foreign Contacts Made by the German Opposition to Hitler
Author: Carolsue HollandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-Nazi movement
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Peace Through Coup D'Etat
Author: Peter HoffmannHow Information Received from the Foreign Contacts of the German Resistance Influenced the Development of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's Policy of Appeasement from May 1937 to September 1938
Author: Stefan HoffmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-Nazi movement
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"The objective of this thesis is to provide a substantial examination of the foreign contacts of the German resistance with the British government, specifically between Prime Minister Chamberlain's accession to power in May 1937 and the Munich Agreement of 30 September 1938. The contacts under examination will include Carl Goerdeler, Ludwig Beck, Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, Ernst Freiherr von Weizs©Þcker, and Erich and Theodor Kordt. The central motivation of this thesis is an attempt to understand the development of Chamberlain's policy of appeasement until the Munich Agreement, and how information received from German resistance contacts influenced official British policy. Similarly, a study of the September Plot within Germany will be included in an attempt to ascertain the readiness of the resistance to remove Adolf Hitler in the event of a positive response from the British Government." --
German Resistance against Hitler
Author: Klemens von KlempererPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191606790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This book traces the many efforts of the German Resistance to forge alliances with Hitler's opponents outside Germany. The Allied agencies, notably the British Foreign Office and the US State Department, were ill prepared to deal with the unorthodox approaches of the Widerstand. Ultimately, the Allies' policy of `absolute silence', the Grand Alliance with the Soviet Union, and the demand for `unconditional surrender' pushed the war to its final denouement, disregarding the German Resistance. Klemens von Klemperer's scholarly and detailed study uncovers the activities and beliefs of numerous individuals who fought against Nazism within Germany. He explores the formation of their policy and analyses the relations of the Resistance with the intelligence agencies of the Allied powers. Measured by the conventional standards of diplomacy, the German Resistance to Hitler was a failure. However, Professor von Klemperer shows that many of the principles and strategies of the German Resistance, albeit ignored or overridden by the Allies during wartime, were to find their place in the concerns of international relations in the post-war world.
The German Opposition to Hitler
Author: Michael ThomsettPublisher: Crux Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1909979376
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Between 1933 and 1945, more than 500,000 German citizens resisted the Nazi government. Many were imprisoned for political crimes which included both active attempts to remove Hitler from office and passive attempts to oppose the Nazi regime. Resistance was found among university students, churches and even in the German military. This fascinating and compelling history of the German resistance covers groups and methods from underground newspapers such as "Rote Kapella" and "Internal Front" to conspiracy movements within the army, that culminated with Operation Valkyrie, a coup d'état and assassination attempt which went terribly wrong.
The Hunt for Nazi Spies
Author: Simon KitsonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226438953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
From 1940 to 1942, French secret agents arrested more than two thousand spies working for the Germans and executed several dozen of them—all despite the Vichy government’s declared collaboration with the Third Reich. A previously untold chapter in the history of World War II, this duplicitous activity is the gripping subject of The Hunt for Nazi Spies, a tautly narrated chronicle of the Vichy regime’s attempts to maintain sovereignty while supporting its Nazi occupiers. Simon Kitson informs this remarkable story with findings from his investigation—the first by any historian—of thousands of Vichy documents seized in turn by the Nazis and the Soviets and returned to France only in the 1990s. His pioneering detective work uncovers a puzzling paradox: a French government that was hunting down left-wing activists and supporters of Charles de Gaulle’s Free French forces was also working to undermine the influence of German spies who were pursuing the same Gaullists and resisters. In light of this apparent contradiction, Kitson does not deny that Vichy France was committed to assisting the Nazi cause, but illuminates the complex agendas that characterized the collaboration and shows how it was possible to be both anti-German and anti-Gaullist. Combining nuanced conclusions with dramatic accounts of the lives of spies on both sides, The Hunt for Nazi Spies adds an important new dimension to our understanding of the French predicament under German occupation and the shadowy world of World War II espionage.
Hitler's First Hundred Days
Author: Peter FritzschePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198871120
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The story of how Germans came to embrace the Third Reich.Germany in early 1933 was a country ravaged by years of economic depression and increasingly polarized between the extremes of left and right. Over the spring of that year, Germany was transformed from a republic, albeit a seriously faltering one, into a one-party dictatorship. In Hitler's First Hundred Days, award-winning historian PeterFritzsche examines the pivotal moments during this fateful period in which the Nazis apparently won over the majority of Germans to join them in their project to construct the Third Reich. Fritzsche scrutinizes the events of theperiod - the elections and mass arrests, the bonfires and gunfire, the patriotic rallies and anti-Jewish boycotts - to understand both the terrifying power that the National Socialists came to exert over ordinary Germans and the powerful appeal of the new era that they promised.
A Conservative Against Hitler
Author: Louise WillmotPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349217573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945
Author: Peter HoffmannPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773566406
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The English version of the book has been extensively revised and expanded since its original publication in German. This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.
The Shadow War Against Hitler
Author: Christof MauchPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231120449
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Filled with revelations and replete with telling detail, this riveting book lifts the curtain on the United States' secret intelligence operations in the war against Nazi Germany.