Disobeying Hitler
Title | Disobeying Hitler PDF eBook |
Author | Randall Hansen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 481 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199927928 |
Looks at the men who disobeyed Hitler's orders through resistance, thus saving thousands of Allied and German lives, keeping supply lines open, while preserving cities and infrastructure.
Disobeying Hitler
Title | Disobeying Hitler PDF eBook |
Author | Randall Hansen |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015-04-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0385664648 |
Both horrifying and life-affirming, Disobeying Hitler tells the untold story of German revolt against the dying Nazi tyranny. Anyone with even a passing interest in the Second World War knows about the plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944. There was even a Tom Cruise movie. But the story of the great wave of resistance that arose in the year that followed--with far-reaching consequences--has never been told before. Drawing on newly opened archives, acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that many high-ranking Nazis, and average German citizens in far greater numbers than previously recognized, reacted defiantly to the Fuhrer's by then manifest insanity. Together they spared cities from being razed, and prevented the needless obliteration of industry and infrastructure. Disobeying Hitler presents new evidence on three direct violations of orders made personally by Adolf Hitler: the refusal by the commander of Paris to destroy the city; Albert Speer's refusal to implement a scorched earth policy in Germany; and the failure to defend Hamburg against invading British forces. In gripping, story-driven style, Disobeying Hitler shows how the brave resistence of soldiers and civilians, under constant threat of death, was crucial for the outcome of the war. Their bravery saved countless lives and helped lay the foundations for European economic recovery--and continued peace.
Disobeying Hitler
Title | Disobeying Hitler PDF eBook |
Author | Professor & Canada Research Chair in Political Science Randall Hansen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 480 |
Release | 2014-05-20 |
Genre | Anti-Nazi movement |
ISBN | 9780385664639 |
Drawing on previously unexplored archives, Hansen shows that many high-ranking German officer, and average German citizens in far greater numbers than previously recognized, reacted defiantle to Hitler's manifest insanity. He shows how the brave resistance of soldiers and civilians was crucial for the outcome of the war.
Disobeying Hitler
Title | Disobeying Hitler PDF eBook |
Author | Randall Hansen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 481 |
Release | 2014-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199357994 |
On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was executed in the courtyard of the Third Reich's military headquarters in Berlin for attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. A member of the unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Nazi government -- codenamed Operation Valkyrie -- Stauffenberg was shot by a firing squad along with his co-conspirators, and their bodies were dumped in a shallow grave. Most discussions of German resistance during World War II end here, with the failed July 20 plot and the subsequent execution of its leaders. And yet this was far from the last act of disobedience carried out against the Nazi regime, as Randall Hansen reveals in his fascinating new book. Although "resistance" as a commitment to regime change all but ended with Stauffenberg, Hansen shows that if we consider resistance as disobedience -- of orders to detonate a bridge, to wreck a factory, to destroy a harbor or to defend a city to the last man -- then a very different picture emerges. Resistance-as-disobedience continued, and indeed increased, throughout late 1944 and early 1945. And it had a more profound and lasting material effect on the war and its aftermath than did the military resistance culminating in Stauffenberg's attempt on Hitler's life. From the refusal to destroy Paris and key locations in southern France to the unwillingness to implement a scorched earth policy on German soil, disobedience in the Third Reich manifested in numerous ways after 1944, and ultimately impacted the course of the war by saving thousands of Allied and German lives, keeping supply lines open, and preserving cities and infrastructure. In a period of thorough and at times fanatical obedience, the few instances of disobedience against the Nazi regime become all the more striking. Considering various forms of oppostion across the Western Front, Disobeying Hitler is a significant contribution to the literature on German resistance.
Disobedience and Conspiracy in the German Army, 1918-1945
Title | Disobedience and Conspiracy in the German Army, 1918-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert B. Kane |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2008-04-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0786437448 |
This work examines, among other topics, the personal oath of loyalty that the officers of the German army swore to Adolf Hitler on August 2, 1934. It discusses how the majority of officers--those who did not become conspirators against him--complied with Hitler's orders until May 1945 despite his cruel treatment of soldiers, militarily unsound strategy and tactics, and the widespread destruction and crimes he and his forces committed. The oath taken by the officers had a strong psychological effect among a proud corps with a long history of obedience and honor. They followed Hitler to the end even though they knew they were fighting a losing battle. The author also examines why and how only a few officers, the conspirators, began to break away, lose trust in Hitler, oppose him and finally stage an assassination attempt. This history traces the development within the German army from 1918 of the philosophies of loyalty and disloyalty--and obedience and disobedience--as challenged by the Hitlerian oath of loyalty.
Resistance of the Heart
Title | Resistance of the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Stoltzfus |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | 422 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813529097 |
Stoltzfus's (history, Florida State U.) 1996 book has now appeared in paper. The Rosenstrasse protest consisted almost entirely of women protesting the arrest of their Jewish husbands by the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis, surprisingly enough, gave in, and almost all of the men survived the war in their Berlin neighborhood. Using interviews with survivors and other primary resources, Stoltzfuz reconstructs the story, offering his analysis of how intermarriage with Germans was viewed by the Gestapo and by Hitler. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Title | Letter from a Birmingham Jail PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Martin Luther King |
Publisher | HarperOne |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2025-01-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780063425811 |