In the beginning, they rallied behind Hitler in the national
interest of Germany; in the end, they sacrificed their lives to
assassinate him. A history of German resistance to Hitler in high
places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable
mysteries. Why did high-ranking army officers, civil servants, and
religious leaders support Hitler? Why did they ultimately turn
against him? What transformed these unlikely men, most of them
elitist, militaristic, and fiercely nationalistic, into martyrs to
a universal ideal?
The resisters in "On the Road to the Wolf's Lair" are not the
singular souls doomed to failure by the massive Nazi machinery, but
those who emerged from the Third Reich itself--those people whose
cultural, administrative, and military positions allowed them,
ultimately, to form a systematic, organized opposition to the Nazi
regime. These were people with a vested interest in the Third
Reich, and their slow and painful awakening to its evils makes a
dramatic story, marked as much by temporizing and compromise,
vacillation and reluctance--a resistance to conscience--as by the
intrigue and heroics of political resistance that finally emerged.
Hamerow follows these men as, one by one, they find themselves
overwhelmed by guilt and contrition over their support of a
murderous regime. He shows how their awakened moral reckonings and
higher interests overrode lifetime habits and disciplines on the
road to "the wolf's lair."
The result is an unsparing history of the German resistance to
Hitler--one where the players emerge for the first time as real
people with complex motives and evolving characters. Almost a
history of the possibility of an emergingcollective moral
conscience within a destructive environment, the book adds to our
understanding of the fall of the Third Reich and of the task of
history itself.
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