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The Plots Against Hitler

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by Danny Orbach


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  Parssinen, Terry, The Oster Conspiracy of 1938: The Unknown Story of the Military Plot to Kill Hitler and Avert World War II (New York: HarperCollins, 2003).

  Pfister, U., “Die Wirtschaft in der Ära des Nationalsozialismus 1933–1939” (PowerPoint presentation), October 28, 2008, http:://www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/wisoge/md/personen/pfister/Vorlesungsdateien/Deutsche_Wirtschaft_seit_1850/S02-NS-Folien.pdf.

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  ​———, Hans-Alexander von Voss: Generalstabsoffizier im Widerstand, 1907–1944 (Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2008).

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  Rosen, Chaim, “Opozitsyah le’umit shamranit ba-Raykh ha-shelishi” [National Conservative Opposition in the Third Reich] (Ph.D. dissertation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1997).

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  ​———, Henning von Tresckow: Ein Preuße gegen Hitler; Biographie (Berlin: Propyläen, 1987).

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  Schöllgen, Gregor, Ulrich von Hassell, 1881–1944: Ein Konservativer in der Opposition (Munich: Beck, 1990).

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  Staniland, Paul, Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014).

  Stedman, Andrew D., Alternatives to Appeasement: Neville Chamberlain and Hitler’s Germany (New York: Tauris, 2011).

  Steinbach, Peter, Claus von Stauffenberg: Zeuge im Feuer (Leinfelder-Echterdingen: DRW, 2007).

  Steinbach, Peter, and Johannes Tuchel, Georg Elser: Der Hitler Attentäter (Berlin: Be. Bra Wissenschaft, 2008).

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  ​———, Stauffenberg: Der 20. Juli 1944 (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 2004).

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  Young, Desmond, Rommel (London: Collins, 1972).

  Zeller, Eberhard, Geist der Freiheit: Der Zwanzigste Juli (Munich: Rhinn, 1952).

  ​———, Oberst Claus Graf Stauffenberg: Ein Lebensbild (Paderborn: Schöningh, 1994).

  Zimmermann, Moshe, ed., Ha-Hitnagdut La-Nazism (Jerusalem: Koebner Institute for German History, 1984).

  Press and Newspapers

  Der Stürmer (Nuremberg)

  Echo der Woche

  London Times

  New York Times

  Pravda (Moscow)

  Völkischer Beobachter (Munich)

  Visual Media

  Kohav Beller, Hava, The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany, 1933–1945 (1992; Los Angeles: New Video Group, 2009), DVD.

  Interviews

  Author with Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, Kreuzberg, Germany, 15.7.2003.

  Nicholas Netteau with Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, Munich, Germany, 13.1.1998 (given to author by the courtesy of Nicholas Netteau).

  Index

  A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

  A

  Abetz, Otto, 235

  Abwehr

  Nazi raids/arrests at headquarters, 158–59

  Nazi suspicions and, 150, 158

  role, 19

  SS intelligence service and, 158, 159

  See also resistance movements/Berlin network; specific individuals

  Aretin, Uta von, 252

  army (Germany)

  Hitler alliance and, 9–10

  racial theory and, 9

  See also specific events; sp
ecific individuals

  Arnold, Fritz/family (Ursula/Friederike/Christof ), 152, 153, 154, 157, 158, 274

  assassination plots. See resistance movements/assassination; Stauffenberg, Claus von, resistance and assassination/Valkyrie attempts

  Attolico, Bernardo, 58

  Auschwitz extermination camp, 148, 159, 194

  Austria “Anschluss,” 30, 31, 47

  B

  Balfour, Michael, 106–7

  Bargatzky, Walter, 221–22, 234–35

  Bauer, Yehuda, 291–92

  Bavaria, 7

  Bavarian Joe (Bayern Seppl), 17

  Beck, Ludwig

  as antiwar, 34, 35–36, 80, 85, 86, 94

  antiwar speech excerpts, 35

  assassination/coup attempt (1944) and, 220

  assassination question and, 182, 183, 185

  attempted suicide/death, 237

  Blomberg scandal and, 16

  body exhumed/burned, 244

  changing view of Nazi regime, 33–36

  coup/planned position in new government, 198, 218, 221, 225–26, 227, 231, 232, 233, 235, 236

  Czechoslovakia invasion views, 33–36

  fears of surveillance, 142

  Fritsch and, 17–18, 27, 35

  Halder and, 27, 30, 35, 36, 92, 284, 307 n15, 320 n21

  health problems, 142, 179

  Kaiser relationship, 116, 117–18

  meeting with Halder (1940), 92

  memorandum/German resistance and, 35

  misunderstanding Hitler and, 33–34, 35, 36

  motives for resistance and, 271, 275

  position/background, 10

  recruitment into resistance movement, 29–31, 34, 36

  resignation (chief of the General Staff), 36

  resistance and, 18, 26, 35, 78, 80, 81–82, 83, 89, 90, 91, 94–95, 112, 136, 142

  as resistance official leader/importance, 81–82, 83, 91–92, 116, 136, 142, 179, 188, 192, 193, 196, 205, 207–8

  revolutionary mutation and, 36

  Wednesday Society and, 26, 34

  See also resistance movements/Berlin network

  Beer Hall Putsch (1923), 164

  Beer Hall Putsch anniversary celebrations

  descriptions, 65–66, 76

  Elser and, 65–66, 76

  Hitler and, 65–66, 69, 70–71, 72, 73

  Beneš, Edvard, 46–47, 59, 60

  Berger, Heinrich, 213

  Bernardis, Robert, 247, 249–50

  Best, S. Payne, 92–93, 264–65

  Bismarck, 7

  Bloch, Ernst, 147

  Blomberg, Werner von

  Czechoslovakia invasion and, 32

  Eva Grün scandal and, 14–16

  Germany’s Nazification and, 15

  position/views, 14, 15

  soldiers’ loyalty oath and, 10

  Blum, Léon, 264

  Blumentritt, General, 221, 233

  Bock, Fedor von

  Hitler replacing/Hitler and, 127–28, 131, 141

  Soviet Union invasion and, 121, 122, 123, 125

  Boeselager, Philipp von, Count, 133–34, 226, 236, 265, 276

  Boineburg-Lengsfeld, 222, 229

  Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Pastor

  arrest/imprisonment, 159, 261, 262

  assassination question and, 186–87

  death, 264

  feelings of guilt and, 278

  Jews and, 154, 271

  motives for resistance and, 271, 276

  resistance/connections and, 154, 197, 273

  on “responsible action,” 293

  Bormann, Martin, 216

  Brandt, Heinz

  assassination attempt (1943) and, 138, 139

  assassination attempt (1944) and, 213, 214, 215, 282

  Brauchitsch, Walther von

  Beck and, 34, 35–36

  description, 28

  Hitler and, 90–91, 122, 127

  not supporting coup, 88, 283–84

  position and, 27, 28, 69, 84, 127

  resistance and, 58, 90–91, 183

  Soviet Union invasion/atrocities and, 124

  World War II and, 89, 90–91, 122, 124

  Bredow, Ferdinand von, 10, 20

  Brehmer, Major General, 229

  Breitenbuch, Eberhard von

  after assassination/coup attempts (1944), 242, 265

  resistance and, 119, 242

  as would-be assassin, 204, 242, 265

  Breitman, Richard, 21, 22

  Britain

  appeasement/avoiding war and, 42, 43, 47, 54–55, 57, 58–59, 61, 79, 80

  German resistance cooperation/communication and, 39–43, 44, 47, 81, 83, 84, 87, 90, 92–93, 104, 111, 185, 284, 308 n10, 318 n4

  Germany/Czechoslovakia and, 39, 46, 47–48, 53–55, 56, 57–59, 60, 61, 79

  Munich agreement and, 58–59, 64, 78, 79, 80

  Nazi invasion of Poland/declaration of war, 85

  Nazi violation of Munich agreement/Czechoslovakia occupation and, 79

  passenger liner sinking, 85

  See also specific individuals

  Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, Walter von

  resistance and, 45, 46, 52

  withdrawal from resistance, 61

  Broich, Major General, 177, 178

  Buchenwald concentration camp, 76

  Busch, Ernst, 34, 36, 204

  Bussche, Axel von dem

  after assassination/coup attempts (1944), 265, 266

  feelings of shame and, 278, 362 n32

  military injuries and, 203

  motives for resistance and, 269, 271, 278

  witnessing persecution of Jews and, 194–95, 271, 343 n22

  as would-be assassin/suicide bomber, 194, 195, 203, 204, 271

  C

  Cadogan, Sir Alexander, 42–43, 55

  Canaris, Wilhelm

  after assassination/coup attempts (1944), 261, 262, 263–64

  background, 144

  descriptions/views, 143–44, 145, 148

  diary, 264

  family (Erica/Brigitte) and, 143, 147, 148, 155

  Hitler’s orders and, 155–56

  motives for resistance and, 271, 274

  Nazi raids/Hitler’s discharging and, 158–59

  Oster and, 20, 55–56, 80, 144

  position, 20, 80

  rescuing victims/Jewish victims, 145–51, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157–58, 264, 271, 274

  resistance and, 44, 55–56, 57, 80, 81, 84, 89, 111, 143, 284

  speaking against Nazi crimes, 148

  turning to resistance/influences, 144–45

  Weimar period terrorists and, 144

  Catholic political parties and Nazis, 6

  Chamberlain, Neville

  appeasement/avoiding war and, 42, 47, 54–55, 57, 58–59, 61, 79, 80

  declaration of war, 85

  Hitler betrayal/Czechoslovakia and, 79, 80

  meetings with Hitler, 47–48, 53–54, 58–60

  Poland/Nazis and, 79–80

  warnings on Hitler and, 42, 43

  Christiansen, Friedrich, 149

  Churchill, Winston

  as opponent of appeasement, 43

  warning on Nazis, 59

  World War II and, 98, 269

  “clique” in network-analysis theory, 24–25

  Colvin, Ian, 43

  Communist Party

  arrest of deputies, 6

  destruction by Hitler, 2–3, 4–5, 6, 12–13

  January 1933 situation, 1

  Reichstag fire and, 2, 4

  compartmentalization in network-analysis theory, 25

  concentration camp, Gurs, France, 147–48

  concentration camps (Germany)

  description/prisoners, 12

  See also specific camps

  “connectors” in network-analysis theory, 27

  conspiracy. See resistance movements

  Conzen, Annemarie

  Canaris helping, 147–48, 151, 154, 157

  daughters (Irmgard/Gabriele) and mother, 147–48,
151, 154, 157

  counterfactual questions/scenarios, 282

  Crohne, Wilhelm, 262

  Crome, Hans

  resistance and, 99, 130, 182, 190–91, 331 n20

  Soviet captors and, xvi, 99, 130, 182

  testimony, 212

  Curtis, Lionel, 106–7

  Czechoslovakia

  Chamberlain/Hitler meetings and, 47–48, 53–54, 58–60

  creation/conflict, 32

  Munich agreement and, 58–59, 64, 78, 79, 80

  Nazi/Hitler plan to invade, 32–33, 46

  Nazi occupation of, 79

  “peace conference”/fate, 58–60

  Sudetenland and Germany, 32, 33–34, 36, 37, 39, 41, 42, 43, 46, 47, 48, 54, 55, 58–60, 80, 101, 103

 

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