Germany's Underground: The Anti-Nazi Resistance | 
 enlarge | Author: Allen Welsh Dulles
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0306809281
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.548673
EAN: 9780306809286
ASIN: 0306809281
Publication Date: January 6, 2000
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By the diplomat who became the first head of the CIA, a dramatic account of the German anti-Nazi resistance movement -"rich, exciting, and authoritative" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.) This classic account of the German Resistance during World War II remains one of the primary sources on a topic that continues to generate controversy more than a half century after the war's end. As OSS (office of strategic services) chief of station in Bern, Switzerland, from 1942 to 1945, Dulles was charged with determining the extent and commitment of the opposition to Hitler. Germany's Underground is the most important firsthand account we have of Allied contact with that opposition-and the most concise and readable history of the men and women from every stratum of German society who made up this complex web.
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Skeleton of the subject September 24, 2001
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As an important American figure on the outside of Germany working in Switzerland, Dulles might have given us information not found elsewhere. Instead, he merely provides sketches of the important conspirators, gives some background, explains their part in the plot to kill Hitler or coax the West to support an overthrow of the Nazis, and explains that the conspirators either escaped the ensuing manhunts after July 20, 1944, or that they were tortured and executed. He provides a short description of how the Church was reduced to passive resistance, how the Germans might have chosen the East for salvation rather than the West, and how even Himmler and Goring aspired to step into the Fuhrer's shoes. The book is a mere skeleton of information found in greater detail in other books, especially Hans Gisevius "To the Bitter End." If you need your books brief and to read like outlines, this will serve. If you would prefer to read something like an insider's account, try Gisevius.
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