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The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945 Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
Hoffman, Peter Publisher: MIT Press, USA Year Published: 1969 Resource Type: Book
A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
Abstract: Peter Hoffman has produced an extensive text on the Third Reich Germans who tried to remove Adolph Hitler. He draws upon "every available source, including such primary sources as personal statements from survivors of the period, diaries, unpublished memoirs, letters, and documents preserved in public and private archives." The book also contains detailed notes, appendixes, bibliographies, maps and diagrams. The book is a thorough portrayal of the "plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures" of the opposition to Hitler and covers the background of terror against which this opposition operated. Divided into ten parts, the book starts by giving a background to Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor. It goes on to describe "Plans for a Coup, "Assassination Attempts," and "Contacts With the Enemy," amongst other things, ending with the "Wreck of the Opposition."
[Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary]
Table of Contents
Author's Foreword
Part I - The Background 1. The Year 1933 2. Forms of Resistance 3. Top-Level Crisis
Part II - The Sudeten Crisis and the Attempted Coup of 1938 4. Operation 'Green' 5. Foreign Policy and Resistance 6. Beck's Plans 7. Halder's Plans
Part III - Plans for a Coup 1939 - 1940 8. Before the Outbreak of War 9. Plans, Probings and Memoranda 10. Halder's New Plan 11. Further Efforts 12. Soundings Abroad
Part IV - Internal Political Plans 13. Schmid Noerr 14. Hassell 15. Popitz 16. Goerdeler 17. The Kreisau Circle 18. Socialists
Part V - Contacts with the Enemy 1940 - 1944 19. Albrecht Haushofer 1940 - 1941 20. Hassell 1941 - 1942 21. Lochner 1941 - 1942 22. Trott, Bonhoeffer, Schönfeld 1942 23. Moltke 1943 24. Trott 1943 - 1944 25. Gisevius 26. Miscellaneous Contacts 27. 'Eastern Solution'? 28. Otto John 1944
Part VI - Assassination Attempts 1933 - 1942 29. The Early Days 30. Attempts of 1938 - 1942
Part VII - Tresckow and Army Group Centre 31. Preparations 32. Projections of 1943 33. Abortive Plans 34. 'Valkyrie'
Part VIII - Stauffenberg and the Replacement Army 35. Stauffenberg's Career 36. Assassination Attempts - Bussche, Kleist, Breitenbuch 37. Procurement of Explosive 38. Communications Planning 39. Internal Political Planning 40. Stauffenberg's First Two Assassination Attempts
Part IX - 20 July 1944 41. 'Wolfschanze' 42. Berlin: The Coup 43. The Coup in the Provinces 44. Prague, Vienna, Paris 45. Collapse in Berlin
Part X - Wreck of the Opposition 46. Summary Court Martial 47. Arrests 48. People's Court, Executions, Concentration Camps
Notes Appendices Abbreviations and Glossary Sources and Bibliography Index Errata and Addenda
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