Plotting Hitler's Death: The German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-45

Fest, Joachim E.

ISBN 10: 0753800403 / ISBN 13: 9780753800409

Published by Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Plotting Hitler's Death: The German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-45
• Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753800403
• ISBN 13: 9780753800409
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 410 grams

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Synopsis

Tiem and again, small numbers of Germans, civilian nad military, noble and ignoble, scheme to topple the Fuhrer, and on several occasions they came within minutes - or inches - of succeeding. Fest explores why they tried, why they found so little support either in Germany or outside it, and why they failed.

Review

The only large-scale German resistance to Nazism came from the Communists, who received little credit for it after the war, with Europe divided on Cold War lines. Indeed many post-war Germans at first were reluctant to acknowledge that any wartime resistance had been heroic, given the contrast with their own active or passive support for the Nazis. Later, however, a loose grouping of disaffected German liberals who had plotted Hitler's assassination were adopted as saviors of Germany's soul, as proof that there was another, moral, Germany. Fest's book, published first in Germany in 1994 on the 50th anniversary of the failed attempt by von Stauffenberg to blow up the Fuhrer, is a compelling, fair-minded account of these plotters. Fest avoids canonizing them as redeemers of Germany, but acknowledges the bravery and integrity of their efforts.