This book traces the many efforts of the German Resistance to forge alliances with Hitler's opponents outside Germany. The Allied agencies, notably the British Foreign Office and the U.S. State Department, were ill-prepared to deal with the unorthodox approaches of the Widerstand. Ultimately, the Allies' policy of "absolute silence," the Grand Alliance with the Soviet Union, and the demand for "unconditional surrender" pushed the war to its final denouement, disregarding the German Resistance. Von Klemperer's scholarly and detailed study uncovers the activities and beliefs of numerous individuals who fought against Nazism within Germany. He explores the formation of their policy and analyzes the relations of the Resistance with the Vatican and the ecumenical movement, the intelligence agencies of the Allied powers, and the resistance movements outside Germany. Measured by the conventional standards of diplomacy, the German Resistance to Hitler was a failure. However, von Klemperer shows that many of the principles and strategies of the German Resistance, albeit ignored or overridden by the Allies during wartime, were to find their place in the concerns of international relations in the post-war period.
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"Nuanced and persuasive....An impressively researched and finely balanced summation of an important subject."--American Historical Review
"A meticulously researched and marvelously detailed account....It contains much new information."--The New York Review of Books
"Written with rare compassion and genuine sensitivity to the moral dilemmas in which those Germans who had the courage to resist Hitler invariably found themselves.. In no other study in this field is the relationship between public passivity and genocidal responsibility so starkly detailed."--German Studies Review
"Well-written, highly informative....His account is well founded and provides a great deal of new evidence."--Central European History
"A well-written book that surely will become the standard work on the subject."--Choice
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Klemperer is the editor of the well-received A Noble Combat: The Letters of Sheila Grant Duff and Adam von Trott zu Solz 1932-39 (OUP, 1988). He lives in Massachusetts, USA.
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IN the course of the decades since the Second World War, historians have been sorting out the various factors which contributed to the defeat of Hitler's Germany: statesmanship, strategic planning, military operations, intelligence work, and superior economic and industrial strength of the Allies together with Hitler's miscalculations-and, last but not least, internal resistance within Germany itself to Nazism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
resistance foreign policy, exile politics, opposition circles, resistance circles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Visser't Hooft, Adam von Trott, New York, Carl Goerdeler, Prime Minister, United States, Bishop Bell, Helmuth von Moltke, Secretary of State, Foreign Secretary, Kreisau Circle, National Socialism, Theo Kordt, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Otto John, David Astor, State Department, General Beck, Lord Halifax, Ger van Roon, Freya von Moltke, World Council of Churches, British Empire, Sir Alexander Cadogan, Trott Archive New!
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IN the course of the decades since the Second World War, historians have been sorting out the various factors which contributed to the defeat of Hitler's Germany: statesmanship, strategic planning, military operations, intelligence work, and superior economic and industrial strength of the Allies together with Hitler's miscalculations-and, last but not least, internal resistance within Germany itself to Nazism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
resistance foreign policy, exile politics, opposition circles, resistance circles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Visser't Hooft, Adam von Trott, New York, Carl Goerdeler, Prime Minister, United States, Bishop Bell, Helmuth von Moltke, Secretary of State, Foreign Secretary, Kreisau Circle, National Socialism, Theo Kordt, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Otto John, David Astor, State Department, General Beck, Lord Halifax, Ger van Roon, Freya von Moltke, World Council of Churches, British Empire, Sir Alexander Cadogan, Trott Archive New!
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