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The history of the German resistance, 1933-1945 / Peter Hoffmann ; translated from the German by Richard Barry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffmann, Peter, 1930-
- Standardized Title:
- Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20).
- Hitler, Adolf.
- Anti-Nazi movement.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 853 pages : illustrations
- Edition:
- 3rd English ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The English version of the book has been extensively revised and expanded since its original publication in German. This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Author’s Foreword
- Preface to the Third Edition
- The Background
- The Year 1933
- Forms of Resistance
- Top-Level Crisis
- The Sudeten Crisis and the Attempted Coup of 1938
- Operation ‘Green’
- Foreign Policy and Resistance
- Beck’s Plans
- Halder’s Plans
- Plans for a Coup 1939–1940
- Before the Outbreak of War
- Plans, Probings and Memoranda
- Halder’s New Plan
- Further Efforts
- Soundings Abroad
- Internal Political Plans
- SchmidNoerr
- Hassell
- Popitz
- Goerdeler
- The Kreisau Circle
- Socialists
- Contacts With the Enemy 1940–1944
- Albrecht Haushofer 1940–1941
- Hassell 1941–1942
- Lochner 1941–1942
- Trott, Bonhoeffer, Schönfeld 1942
- Moltke 1943
- Trott 1943–1944
- Gisevius
- Miscellaneous Contacts
- ‘Eastern Solution’?
- Otto John 1944
- Assassination Attempts 1933–1942
- The Early Days
- Attempts of 1938–1942
- Tresckow and Army Group Centre
- Preparations
- Projects of 1943
- Abortive Plans
- ‘Valkyrie’
- Stauffenberg and the Replacement Army
- Stauffenberg’s Career
- Assassination Attempts — Bussche, Kleist, Breitenbuch
- Procurement of Explosive
- Communications Planning
- Internal Political Planning
- Stauffenberg’s First Two Assassination Attempts
- 20 JULY 1944
- ‘Wolfschanze’
- Berlin: The Coup
- The Coup in the Provinces
- Prague, Vienna, Paris
- Collapse in Berlin
- Wreck of the Opposition
- Summary Court Martial
- Arrests
- People’s Court, Executions, Concentration Camps
- Notes
- Appendices
- Abbreviations and Glossary
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Translation of Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 773-815) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85431-3
- 9786612854316
- 0-7735-6640-6
- OCLC:
- 923230858
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