Disobeying Hitler German Resistance After Valkyrie 1st Edition by Randall Hansen ISBN 0199927928 9780199927920

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ISBN 10: 0199927928 
ISBN 13: 9780199927920
Author:  Randall Hansen

On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was executed in the courtyard of the Third Reich’s military headquarters in Berlin for attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. A member of the unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Nazi government — codenamed Operation Valkyrie — Stauffenberg was shot by a firing squad along with his co-conspirators, and their bodies were dumped in a shallow grave.Most discussions of German resistance during World War II end here, with the failed July 20 plot and the subsequent execution of its leaders. And yet this was far from the last act of disobedience carried out against the Nazi regime, as Randall Hansen reveals in his fascinating new book. Although “resistance” as a commitment to regime change all but ended with Stauffenberg, Hansen shows that if we consider resistance as disobedience — of orders to detonate a bridge, to wreck a factory, to destroy a harbor or to defend a city to the last man — then a very different picture emerges. Resistance-as-disobedience continued, and indeed increased, throughout late 1944 and early 1945. And it had a more profound and lasting material effect on the war and its aftermath than did the military resistance culminating in Stauffenberg’s attempt on Hitler’s life. From the refusal to destroy Paris and key locations in southern France to the unwillingness to implement a scorched earth policy on German soil, disobedience in the Third Reich manifested in numerous ways after 1944, and ultimately impacted the course of the war by saving thousands of Allied and German lives, keeping supply lines open, and preserving cities and infrastructure. In a period of thorough and at times fanatical obedience, the few instances of disobedience against the Nazi regime become all the more striking. Considering various forms of oppostion across the Western Front, Disobeying Hitler is a significant contribution to the literature on German resistance.

Disobeying Hitler German Resistance After Valkyrie 1st Table of contents:

1. Chapter 1 War, Atrocities, Resistance
2. Chapter 2 The Coup Against Hitler
3. Chapter 3 From Failing HandsThe Coup in Paris
4. Chapter 4 Paris, July 20, 1944The SS Locked Down
5. Chapter 5 The Resistance’s Last HopeRommel against Hitler
6. Chapter 6 Hitler’s Revenge
7. Chapter 7 Did a Prussian Save Paris?
8. Chapter 8 To Destroy the City of Light
9. Chapter 9 Paris in Revolt
10. Chapter 10 Paris Liberated, Paris Spared
11. Chapter 11 Normandy SouthThe Invasion of Southern France
12. Chapter 12 Forts and FortressesToulon
13. Chapter 13 Europe’s LifelineMarseille
14. Chapter 14 Violence Comes HomePreparing the Defence of the Reich
15. Chapter 15 To Destroy GermanyHitler and Scorched Earth
16. Chapter 16 Fighting to the Last ManThe Allies at the Rhine
17. Chapter 17 Hitler Rages
18. Chapter 18 The Siege of Düsseldorf
19. Chapter 19 Dying So That They May LiveCentral Germany
20. Chapter 20 Nuremberg’s Destruction, Heidelberg’s SalvationSouthern Germany
21. Chapter 21 A Citizens’ RevoltAugsburg
22. Chapter 22 “We, The Women of Freiburg, Beg You”The French Occupation of Southern Germany
23. Chapter 23 A House of CardsThe Soviet Assault on the Reich
24. Chapter 24 Saving Caspar David Friedrich’s City
25. Chapter 25 Finishing the Job that Bomber Harris StartedHamburg
26. Chapter 26 Escaping the Soviet NetWalther Wenck and the Flight across the Elbe

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