To The Bitter End,9780306808692

To The Bitter End

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ISBN13: 9780306808692
ISBN10: 0306808692
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-08-22
Publisher(s): Grand Central Publishing
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Summary

When on July 20, 1944, a bombboldly placed inside the Wolf's Lair (Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia) by the German Anti-Nazi Resistanceexploded without killing the Fuhrer, the subsequent coup d'etat against the Third Reich collapsed. Most of the conspirators were summarily shot or condemned in show trials and sadistically hanged. The conspiracy involved a wide circle of former politicians, diplomats, and government officials as well as senior military men. The Resistance had started as early as 1933 and involved several planned putsches and assassination attempts. Hans B. Gisevius knew or met the major figuresincluding Beck, Canaris, Oster, Goerdeler, and von Stauffenbergand barely escaped after the coup's failure. One of the few survivors of the German Anti-Nazi Resistance, Gisevius traces its history, from the 1933 Reichstag fire to Germany's defeat in 1945, in a book as riveting as it is exceptional.

Author Biography

One of the earliest and most active plotters, and later a prosecution witness at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Hans B. Gisevius (1904–1974) used his positions in the Gestapo and the Abwehr (military intelligence) to further the anti-Nazi conspiracy.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD xxix
Allen Dulles
PART ONE From the Reichstag Fire to the Fritsch Crisis 1(272)
1. The Reichstag Fire
3(34)
THE ACT
3(9)
THE SUSPECTS
12(9)
MARINUS VAN DER LUBBE
21(7)
THE TRIAL
28(9)
2. Gestapo
37(45)
NEBE
46(5)
INTRIGUES
51(11)
RALL
62(11)
THE INCENDIARIES
73(9)
3. The Frenzy of the Masses
82(51)
Gleichschaltung
82(17)
THE VIOLENCE OF REVOLUTION
99(15)
THE SCENT OF BLOOD
114(19)
4. June 30, 1934
133(41)
GESTAPO POLITICS
133(12)
THE BLOOD PURGE
145(27)
AFTERMATH
172(2)
5. Bloodless Revolution
174(45)
THE `RESPECTABLE' REVOLUTION
174(9)
DUEL WITH HEYDRICH
183(16)
BANISHMENT
199(20)
6. The Fritsch-Blomberg Crisis
219(47)
7. The Magic and the Vicious Circles
266(7)
PART TWO From Munich to July 20, 1944 273(326)
1. War in the Offing--May, 1938, to September, 1939
275(101)
BECK'S RESIGNATION
275(8)
HALDER'S SETBACK THEORY
283(13)
WITZLEBEN IS WON OVER
296(10)
INVOLVED PREPARATIONS
306(11)
MUNICH
317(10)
GLASSBREAKERS' HOLIDAY
327(8)
THE MARCH MADNESS
335(8)
CONVERSATIONS ABROAD
343(9)
FINAL EFFORTS INSIDE GERMANY
352(9)
HITLER COOKS A STEW
361(4)
WAR
365(11)
2. Toward the Catastrophe--September, 1939, to July, 1944
376(114)
THE FIRST `FEELERS'
376(6)
THREE CRITICAL WEEKS
382(20)
THE ZITHER PLAYER
402(9)
THE OPPOSITION
411(8)
OPPOSITIONAL CIRCLES
419(10)
GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS
429(17)
FRUITLESS PEACE FEELERS, USELESS WARNINGS
446(10)
WASTED YEARS
456(11)
SEVERE SETBACKS
467(12)
THE NEW DYNAMISM
479(11)
3. Too Late--July 20, 1944
490(86)
PRELUDE
490(46)
JULY 20, 1944
536
4. Escape to the Future
576(23)
EPILOGUE 599(8)
GLOSSARY 607(2)
INDEX 609

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