Alternatives to Hitler

[Dave Monroe]

Alternatives to Hitler
German Resistance under the Third Reich
Hans Mommsen
Translated and annotated by Angus McGeoch
With an introduction by Jeremy Noakes
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7646.html

Internal opposition to Nazism is often mythologized as
heroic or dismissed as "too little, too late, and for
the wrong reasons." These seminal writings trace the
real and complex history of the German Resistance from
the ascent of the Nazi Party to the July 1944
attempted assassination of Hitler. Informed by four
decades of research and written by the premier
historian of the German Resistance, this book 
constitutes the definitive work on those tens of
thousands of Germans who fought the Third Reich from
within.
 
Hans Mommsen considers the full spectrum of
opposition, from small but still-dangerous acts of
political disobedience to large-scale conspiracies to
overthrow the government. Along the way he tells the
incredible stories of such Germans as Count Claus von
Stauffenberg, who planted a briefcase bomb during a
staff meeting at Hitler's East Prussian military
headquarters, and the members of the Kreisau Circle,
who clandestinely met to plan for Germany's postwar
future as a democratic member of an integrated 
Europe.

While upholding resistance to Nazism as a value beyond

reproach, Mommsen considers the varied and sometimes
murky motives of those who resisted--motives that
ranged from principled commitment to pragmatic
self-interest by former Nazi sympathizers. He examines
resisters' detailed and not-always-democratic programs
to rebuild a state and reeducate a Nazified society
and considers their sometimes ambivalent attitudes
toward the unfolding Final Solution.

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