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Nein! - Standing Up to Hitler 1935-1944 (Hardcover, Epub Edition)
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Nein! - Standing Up to Hitler 1935-1944 (Hardcover, Epub Edition)
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From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a
revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler. 'Ashdown has
a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known
stories and places them in context with great dexterity. His new
book throws fresh and important light on a crucial topic.' JONATHAN
DIMBLEBY In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he
had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In
part, he was right. By 1945, his armies were being crushed on all
fronts, his regime collapsing with many fleeing retribution for
their crimes. Yet, even before the war started, there were Germans
very high in Hitler's command committed to bringing about his death
and defeat. Paddy Ashdown tells, for the first time, the story of
those at the very top of Hitler's Germany who tried first to
prevent the Second World War and then to deny Hitler victory. Based
on newly released files, the repeated attempts of the plotters to
warn the Allies about Hitler's plans are revealed. Key strands to
the book's narrative lie with the actions of Abwehr head Admiral
Wilhelm Canaris to frustrate Hitler's policies once the war had
started; the plots to kill Hitler and, finally the systematic
passage of key German military secrets to London, Washington and
Moscow through MI6, the OSS (fore-runner to the CIA) and the "Lucy
Ring" Russian spy network based in Switzerland. From 1943 onwards,
concerted efforts were made to strike a separate peace with the
West to shorten the war and prevent eastern Europe falling under
the Soviet yoke. What is revealed is that the anti-Hitler bomb
plots, which have received so much attention are, in fact only a
small part of a much wider story; one in which those at the highest
levels of the German state used every means possible - conspiracy,
assassination, espionage - to ensure that, for the sake of the
long-term reputation of their country and the survival of liberal
and democratic values, Hitler could not be allowed to win the war.
It is a matter of record that the European Union we have today and
the nature and central position of Germany within it, is, in very
large measure, the future envisaged by the plotters and for which
they gave their lives.
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