The plots against Hitler /
In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. A year later, all political parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory and Hitler's dominance seemed complete. Yet over the next few years, an unlikely clutch of conspirators emerged, including soldiers, sch...
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
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Table of Contents:
- Opposition in flames
- "That damned mare!" : the army top-brass scandal
- The officer, the mayor and the spy
- "In the darkest colors" : the decision of General Beck
- The bird and its cage : first attempt at coup d'état, September 1938
- Without a network : the lone assassin
- The point of no return : pogrom and war
- The spirit of Zossen : when networks fail
- Signs in the darkness : rebuilding the conspiracy
- On the wings of thought : networks of imagination
- Brokers on the front line : the new strategy
- War of extermination : the conspirators and the Holocaust
- "Flash" and liqueur bottles : assassination attempts in the East
- Codename U-7 : rescue and abyss
- Count Stauffenberg : the charismatic turn
- Thou shalt kill : the problem of tyrannicide
- A wheel conspiracy : the Stauffenberg Era
- The final showdown : July 20, 1944
- The shirt of Nessus
- Motives in the twilight
- Networks of resistance.