History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945

✍ Scribed by Peter Hoffmann

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 872
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The History of the German Resistance is the most comprehensive and authoritative account ever published of the German opposition's struggle against Hitler, covering all the serious attempts to overthrow or assassinate him leading up to the failed attempt of 20 July 1944. Extensive notes, a full bibliography, maps, plans, diagrams, and a comprehensive index complete this indispensable and definitive account.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Author's Foreword
Preface to the Third Edition
PART I: THE BACKGROUND
1 The Year 1933
2 Forms of Resistance
3 Top-Level Crisis
PART II: THE SUDETEN CRISIS AND THE ATTEMPTED COUP OF 1938
4 Operation 'Green'
5 Foreign Policy and Resistance
6 Beck's Plans
7 Halder's Plans
PART III: PLANS FOR A COUP 1939–1940
8 Before the Outbreak of War
9 Plans, Probings and Memoranda
10 Halder's New Plan
11 Further Efforts
12 Soundings Abroad
PART IV: INTERNAL POLITICAL PLANS
13 Schmid Noerr
14 Hassell
15 Popitz
16 Goerdeler
17 The Kreisau Circle
18 Socialists
PART V: CONTACTS WITH THE ENEMY 1940–1944
19 Albrecht Haushofer 1940–1941
20 Hassell 1941–1942
21 Lochner 1941–1942
22 Trott, Bonhoeffer, Schönfeld 1942
23 Moltke 1943
24 Trott 1943–1944
25 Gisevius
26 Miscellaneous Contacts
27 'Eastern Solution'?
28 Otto John 1944
PART VI: ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS 1933–1942
29 The Early Days
30 Attempts of 1938–1942
PART VII: TRESCKOW AND ARMY GROUP CENTRE
31 Preparations
32 Projections of 1943
33 Abortive Plans
34 'Valkyrie'
PART VIII: STAUFFENBERG AND THE REPLACEMENT ARMY
35 Stauffenberg's Career
36 Assassination Attempts – Bussche, Kleist, Breitenbuch
37 Procurement of Explosive
38 Communications Planning
39 Internal Political Planning
40 Stauffenberg's First Two Assassination Attempts
PART IX: 20 JULY 1944
41 'Wolfschanze'
42 Berlin: The Coup
43 The Coup in the Provinces
44 Prague, Vienna, Paris
45 Collapse in Berlin
PART X: WRECK OF THE OPPOSITION
46 Summary Court Martial
47 Arrests
48 People's Court, Executions, Concentration Camps
Notes
Appendices Map of Europe as at 20 July 1944
Map of Germany – The Wehrkreise
Berlin Area
Berlin City Plan
'Wolfschanze' HQ Area with Airfield, 1941–1944
'Wolfschanze' HQ, July 1944
'Wolfschanze' Telephone Communications
'Wolfschanze' Teleprinter Communications
Signals Diagram – Eastern Germany
Diagram – Channels of Command
Plan of Briefing Hut in 'Wolfschanze'
Plan of Office of C-in-C Replacement Army
Diagram – British Chemical Time Fuse
Diagram – British Adhesive Mine – The 'Clam'
Some Secret Reports on the German opposition received by the US Government
Text of important Teleprinter Messages
Report by Werner Vogel, 26 June 1970
Stauffenberg's Attendance at Briefings in the Führer's HQ in July 1944
Some of the more important Headquarters
Ranks – Approximate Equivalents
Abbreviations and Glossary
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Sources and Bibliography
Addenda to the Bibliography
Index
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Errata and Addenda