An Honourable Defeat
Subtitle: A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945
By: Anton Gill.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: October 10, 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20); Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany.; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Description: Despite the threat of summary trial and execution, a tiny minority of Germans opposed National Socialism by distributing dissident literature, meeting secretly to discuss politics and sheltering Communist Jews and other political outlaws. Gill documents such acts of courage along with the organized German resistance to Hitler, which, as he shows, had networks in the army, the church, the Abwehr (military intelligence and counterespionage agency), the Foreign Office and the conservative opposition. He profiles many unsung resisters along with such better-known heroes as outspoken Evangelical pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, hanged in a concentration camp; Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, shot for his key role in the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler; and Hans and Sophie Scholl, the brother and sister who led the White Rose student anti-Nazi group, both beheaded in 1943. British historian Gill's illuminating study cogently argues that Hitler was not an irresistible force and that he succeeded only because he was allowed to.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Forword; label: Part One
title: 1933-1938; label: Chapter One
title: The End of the Republic; label: Chapter Two
title: The Big Battalions; label: Chapter Three
title: A Fortress Strong; label: Chapter Four
title: Lost Illusions; label: Chapter Five
title: Annus Fatalis; label: Part Two
title: 1938-1944; label: Chapter Six
title: The End of Germany; label: Chapter Seven
title: In the Shadows; label: Chapter Eight
title: Holding On; label: Chapter Nine
title: Protest of Youth; label: Chapter Ten
title: Resistance in the East; label: Chapter Eleven
title: Breaking Point; label: Part Three
title: 1944-1945; label: Chaoter Twelve
title: A Hero Enters Late; label: Chapter Thirteen
title: 20 July 1944; label: Chapter Fourteen
title: Aftermath; title: Who's Who; title: Biblography; title: Acknowledgements