Alternatives to Hitler : German resistance under the Third Reich /
German resistance under the Third Reich
Hans Mommsen ; translated and annotated by Angus McGeoch ; with an introduction by Jeremy Noakes.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2003.
- 313 p. ; 24 cm.
Translation of: Alternative zu Hitler. "First published by I.B. Taurus & Co. Ltd in the United Kingdom"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-304) and index.
Carl von Ossietzky and the concept of a right to resist in Germany -- German society and resistance to Hitler -- The social vision and constitutional plans of the German resistance -- The Kreisau Circle and the future reorganization of Germany and Europe -- Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg and the Prussian tradition -- German anti-Hitler resistance and the ending of Europe's division into nation states -- Julius Leber and the German resistance to Hitler -- Wilhelm Leuschner and the resistance movement of 20 July 1944 -- Carlo Mierendorff's 'Socialist Action' programme -- Adolf Reichwein's road to resistance and the Kreisau Circle -- The position of the military opposition to Hitler in the German resistance movement -- Anti-Hitler resistance and the Nazi persecution of Jews.
German resistance to Hitler is a central element of the history of Nazism. Hans Mommsen examines the political aims of these 'other Germans'. He analyses the ideologies of the assassination plot of 20th July 1944, the Kreisau Circle, conservative, socialist, church and military oppositions.
Anti-Nazi movement--History.--Germany World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Germany. Opposition (Political science)--Germany. Government, Resistance to--History--Germany--20th century.