German resistance against Hitler : the search for allies abroad, 1938-1945 / Klemens Von Klemperer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Von Klemperer, Klemens, 1916-

Series:

Clarendon

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-Nazi movement--Germany.

Anti-Nazi movement.

World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic history.

World War, 1939-1945.

Germany--Foreign relations--1933-1945.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (851 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Klemens von Klemperer's scholarly and detailed study uncovers the beliefs and activities of numerous individuals who fought against Nazism within Germany, and traces their many efforts to forge alliances with Hitler's opponents outside the Third Reich. - ;Klemens von Klemperer's scholarly and detailed study uncovers the beliefs and activities of numerous individuals who fought against Nazism within Germany, and traces their many efforts to forge alliances with Hitler's opponents outside the Third Reich. Measured by conventional standards of diplomacy, the foreign ventures of the German Resista

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 RESISTANCE AND EXILE; 1. The Beck-Goerdeler-von Hassell Group; 2. The Abwehr; 3. The Auswärtiges Amt; 4. The Churches; 5. Conspiratorial Circles; 6. Exiles as Auxiliaries; 7. The Socialists in Resistance and Exile; 8. The Communists in Resistance and Exile; 9. Some Concluding Thoughts; 2 THINKING FOR THE BRITISH EMPIRE?; 1. Reconnaissances; 2. Missions to Britain (1938); 3. Von Weizsäcker and his Lieutenants in a Search for Alternative Policies

4. The Generals' Plot and the Munich Agreement between the Powers5. After Munich: The US State Department and the 'Moderates'; 6. After Munich: Continued Contacts with Britain (1939); 7. Adam von Trott Goes It Alone; 8. The Spectre of the Nazi-Soviet Pact and the Road to War; 3 'MAKE A REVOLUTION IN GERMANY FOR THE GERMAN PEOPLE'?; 1. Fighting the Germans or the Nazis?; 2. The Conspiracy Reactivated; 3. 'The Imminent Disaster'; 4. The Vansittart-Theo Kordt Lifeline; 5. The 'Reichenau Incident'; 6. The Venlo Incident; 7. More Negotiations: Group Captain Christie's 'Southern Connection'

8. Ulrich von Hassell on the Wrong Trail in Switzerland9. Agreement within Reach: The Vatican Exchanges; 10. The von Trott Mission to the United States; 11. The Sumner Welles Mission to Europe (February-March 1940); 12. Treason as Patriotic Imperative: Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin and Hans Oster; 4 WlDERSTAND AND THE FORGING OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE; 1. Winston Churchill and 'Absolute Silence'; 2. Nazi Triumphs and the Widerstand; 3. Ex-Chancellor Joseph Wirth's Folly; 4. Albrecht Haushofer's Peace Plans; 5. The Rigi-Kaltbad Memorandum; 6. The Indomitable Carl Goerdeler

7. The Atlantic Charter and Abortive American Contacts8. Otto Strasser and the Mirage of the New World; 9. The Icy Waters of 'Unconditional Surrender'; 10. Despite Casablanca: Feelers from Russia. The Mission of Peter Kleist and the 'Free Germany' Movement; 5 ECUMENICAL DIALOGUE OR 'THE WAR BEHIND THE WAR'; 1. In Switzerland; 2. In Sweden; 3. With Britain and the United States; 6 THE VISION AND THE MIRAGE; 1. The Intelligence Connection: Allen W. Dulles in Berne; 2. Kreisau Initiatives 1943-1944. Foreign Policy Statements and Explorations in Turkey, Sweden, and Switzerland

3. Goerdeler Initiatives 1943-1944. Foreign Policy Statements and Explorations in Sweden4. Otto John in Madrid: Between Goerdeler and von Stauffenberg; 5. Contacts with Allied Resistance Movements; 6. Germany West or East?; 7. Apparently BREAKERS are breaking': 20 July 1944; 8. The Aftermath; Conclusion; Bibilography; Index; Footnotes; notes0101; notes0102

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [442]-472 and index).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-75224-6

0-19-151879-4

0-19-151334-2

OCLC:

436988596