Fascination with the evil of the Nazi regime has not diminished in
the decades since Hitler assumed power in Germany, but the story of
internal resistance to Nazism has not been as fully realized as
have the innumerable tales of horror. In this compact book Peter
Hoffmann examines the growing recognition by some Germans in the
1930s of the malign nature of the Nazi regime, the ways in which
these people became involved in the resistance, and the views of
those who staked their lives in the struggle against tyranny and
murder.
The earliest postwar accounts of the resistance by survivors
and witnesses were followed by a variety of investigations and
evaluations. Peter Hoffrnann here presents a complete
reconstruction of this baffling and intriguing story. After several
decades of study of the German resistance to Nazism, he has
unlocked the secrets of its inner history. Hoffmann recounts the
methods of Hitler's rise to power in the tumultuous days of January
and February 1933, the consolidation of his power as a result of
the Rohm Massacre in 1934, and his growing criminality as evidenced
by the rape of Czechoslovakia and the pogrom of 1938. The author
describes the several attempts in 1938 and during the war years to
dislodge Hitler from within; the desperation of the luckless
opponents over the carnage of war and the mass murders that
threatened to engulf them; and finally, the attempt to assassinate
Hitler on July 20, 1944. Throughout, he probes the motives of the
resisters. Some, for example, found it difficult to justify
assassination, even for the purpose of bringing an end to mass
killing. Hoffmann examines and discounts the accusation that the
principal motive of those whoresisted was to preserve their class
privileges. The resisters, he concludes, acted not so much in the
hope of personal gain as from a moral obligation to challenge the
evils they saw before them.
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