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Plotting Hitler's death : the German Resistance to Hitler 1933-1945 / Joachim Fest ; translated by Bruce Little.

By: Fest, Joachim C, 1926-2006.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Phoenix, 1997Description: 419 p : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0753800403.Subject(s): Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20) | Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany | Germany -- History -- 1933-1945DDC classification: 943.086092
Contents:
The resistance that never was -- The army succumbs -- The September plot -- From Munich to Zossen -- The new generation -- The army groups -- Stauffenberg -- The eleventh hour -- July 20, 1944 -- Persecution and Judgment -- The wages of Failure.
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General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 943.086092 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00010670
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

PLOTTING HITLER'S DEATH brings the full story of german resistance against the Nazis to a popular audience. Time and again, small numbers of Germans, civilian and military, noble and ignoble, schemed to topple the Fuhrer, and on several occasions they came within minutes - or inches - of succeeding. Fest recounts the famous 1944 attempt and the lesser known 1938 attempt to topple Hitler. He also recounts the numurous isolated individuals and conspirators that plotted against the dictator. As powerful and compelling as any thriller, this vivid and absorbing account explores why they tried, why they found so little support either in Germany or outside it, and why they failed.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-371) and index.

The resistance that never was -- The army succumbs -- The September plot -- From Munich to Zossen -- The new generation -- The army groups -- Stauffenberg -- The eleventh hour -- July 20, 1944 -- Persecution and Judgment -- The wages of Failure.

Translation of: Staatsstreich : Der lange Weg zum 20.Juli.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Joachim Fest was born in Berlin in 1926 and educated in Freiburg, Frankfurt and Berlin. After the war, in which he served and was taken prisoner, he worked in radio and television before becoming a full-time writer. Following Speer¿s release from Spandau Prison in 1966, Fest worked closely with him as the general editor of Speer¿s memoirs Inside the Third Reich (1970) and Spandau: The Secret Diaries (1976). Fest¿s biography of Hitler is generally regarded as the finest biography of the German dictator in any language. He has been awarded numerous prizes for his historical writing.

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