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100 1 $aHamerow, Theodore S.
245 10 $aOn the road to the wolf's lair :$bGerman resistance to Hitler.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. ;$aLondon :$bHarvard University Press,$c1999.
300 $a454 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c24 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: 1997.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $apt. I, The rejection of Weimar : -- Opposition to democracy -- Breaking the shackles of Versailles -- The struggle against materialism -- That perennial "Jewish question" -- pt. II, Establishing the New Order : -- The collapse of the Republican Regime -- The military and the Third Reich -- The bureaucracy and the Third Reich -- The Catholics: church, clergy, and National Socialism -- The Protestants: church, clergy, and National Socialism -- pt. III, The flowering of the authoritarian coalition : -- The armed forces under the Hitler dictatorship -- Nazi dominance and bureaucratic accommodation -- The conflict over ecclesiastical autonomy -- pt. IV, The beginnings of resistance : -- Tightening the totalitarian grip -- The diplomacy of brinkmanship -- The march toward Armageddon -- pt. V, Between the threat of victory and the danger of defeat : -- German successes or Nazi triumphs? -- The moral dilemmas of hegemony -- The ebbing tide of conquest -- Searching for a negotiated peace -- pt. VI, Death and transfiguration : -- On the brink of redemption -- A mortal failure -- The passion of the German resistance -- Through martyrdom to beatitude.
520 $aIn the beginning, they rallied behind Hitler in the national interest of Germany; in the end, they sacrificed their lives to assassinate him. A history of German resistance to Hitler in high places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable mysteries. Why did high-ranking army officers, civil servants, and religious leaders support Hitler? Why did they ultimately turn against him? What transformed these unlikely men, most of them elitist, militaristic, and fiercely nationalistic, into martyrs to a universal ideal? The resisters in On the Road to the Wolf's Lair are not the singular souls doomed to failure by the massive Nazi machinery, but those who emerged from the Third Reich itself--those people whose cultural, administrative, and military positions allowed them, ultimately, to form a systematic, organized opposition to the Nazi regime. These were people with a vested interest in the Third Reich, and their slow and painful awakening to its evils makes a dramatic story, marked as much by temporizing and compromise, vacillation and reluctance--a resistance to conscience--as by the intrigue and heroics of political resistance that finally emerged. Hamerow follows these men as, one by one, they find themselves overwhelmed by guilt and contrition over their support of a murderous regime. He shows how their awakened moral reckonings and higher interests overrode lifetime habits and disciplines on the road to "the wolf's lair." The result is an unsparing history of the German resistance to Hitler--one where the players emerge for the first time as real people with complex motives and evolving characters. Almost a history of the possibility of an emerging collective moral conscience within a destructive environment, the book adds to our understanding of the fall of the Third Reich and of the task of history itself. -- Publisher description.
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