Internal opposition to Nazism is often mythologized as heroic or
dismissed as "too little, too late, and for the wrong reasons."
These seminal writings trace the real and complex history of the
German Resistance from the ascent of the Nazi Party to the July
1944 attempted assassination of Hitler. Informed by four decades of
research and written by the premier historian of the German
Resistance, this book constitutes the definitive work on those tens
of thousands of Germans who fought the Third Reich from within.
Hans Mommsen considers the full spectrum of opposition, from
small but still-dangerous acts of political disobedience to
large-scale conspiracies to overthrow the government. Along the way
he tells the incredible stories of such Germans as Count Claus von
Stauffenberg, who planted a briefcase bomb during a staff meeting
at Hitler's East Prussian military headquarters, and the members of
the Kreisau Circle, who clandestinely met to plan for Germany's
postwar future as a democratic member of an integrated Europe.
While upholding resistance to Nazism as a value beyond reproach,
Mommsen considers the varied and sometimes murky motives of those
who resisted--motives that ranged from principled commitment to
pragmatic self-interest by former Nazi sympathizers. He examines
resisters' detailed and not-always-democratic programs to rebuild a
state and reeducate a Nazified society and considers their
sometimes ambivalent attitudes toward the unfolding Final
Solution.
Available in English for the first time in this fluid
translation, this book is a signal achievement by a major
scholar--and the standard work on the German Resistance available
in any language.
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