The Canaris Conspiracy: the Secret Resistance to Hitler in the German Army 9781510739789, 9781510739796, 1510739793

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The Canaris Conspiracy: the Secret Resistance to Hitler in the German Army
 9781510739789, 9781510739796, 1510739793

Table of contents :
Front Cover
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
The Principals
Service Abbreviations and Ranks
Introduction
Was it Resistance?
Patriots or Traitors: Morality of a Coup d'État
The Opposition Leaders and the Gestapo
Special Problems of Resistance in Nazi Germany
Part One
I. Focal Point for Conspiracy
The First Alliance: Canaris and Oster
Hans Oster
Canaris's Relations with the S.S.
Beck and his Resistance Associates
1938: the Fritsch Affair
The Widening Circle
II. Fiasco in 1938
Beck acts against Hitler
Hans von Dohnanyi Kleist's Mission to LondonThe September Conspiracy
III. Anti-War Effort
After Munich: Schlabrendorff joins the Resistance
Warnings to Britain: Churchill and the Resistance
Last Peace Efforts
Part Two
I. Treason Becomes Duty
Canaris and the Fall of Poland
The Abwehr in Wartime: Dohnanyi joins Canaris
Renewed Activity: Oster and Halder
Müller Undertakes Operation X
Hassell Intervenes
Oster's "Treason"
II. The Abwehr Network
Summer 1940: Canaris's Tactics
Royalist Interests
Russia and the Expanding Front: Canaris East and West
Canaris Recruits the Anti-Nazis Relations with the S.S. Initial Plans for the Coup d'État: Coordinating the Resistance
The Communist "Red Band" Exposed
III. The Schmidhuber Affair
Roeder Probes the Abwehr
The Independent Resistance: Hans and Sophie Scholl
The Situation in 1943
Bomb Plot 1943
Roeder's Pressure on the Abwehr
The First Arrests
Part Three
I. The Desperate Years
In Prison
Canaris's Countermeasures: the Defense of Dohnanyi
The Resistance at Bay
Coup d'État Plans Revived: the Suicide Missions
The Tightening Net: Canaris Dismissed
The Resistance Realigned: Stauffenberg and the 1944 Bomb Plot II. After 20 JulyThe Resistance Archives: Gestapo Finds and Losses
Canaris in Prison: Arrests, Interrogations, Torture
In Freisler's Court
Tactics of Goerdeler and Canaris
Dohnanyi's Letter to his Wife
The Final Weeks: Dohnanyi's Indictment and Execution
"Court Martial" at Flossenbürg: Canaris, Oster and Bonhoeffer Executed
Notes
Chronology of Events
Appendix: The Escape of Canaris, 1916
Selected Book-List
Index

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