Title: German resistance against Hitler : the search for allies abroad, 1938-1945 /
Authors: Von Klemperer, Klemens, 1916-
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Anti-Nazi movement Germany; World War, 1939-1945 Diplomatic history.; Germany Foreign relations
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 1. Resistance and Exile. 1. The Beck-Goerdeler-von Hassell Group. 2. The Abwehr. 3. The Auswartiges 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 Weizsacker and his Lieutenants in a Search for Alternative Policies. 4. The Generals' Plot and the Munich Agreement between the Powers. 5. 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.