The plots against Hitler

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  Subjects

  • Anti-Nazi movement--Germany--History--20th century.
  • Assassins--Germany--History--20th century.
  • Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
  • Heads of state--Germany--Biography.
  • Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Assassination attempts.
  • Opposition (Political science)--Germany--History--20th century.

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  Publication information:	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
  ISBN:	9780544715226 (electronic bk.)
  Language:	English
  Record ID:	3473094
  Format:	eBook
  Physical description:	1 online resource
  Date acquired:	October 4, 2016
  More creator details:	Danny Orbach.
  General note:	Electronic book.
  Contents note:	Introduction -- Opposition in flames -- "That damned mare!" : the army top-brass scandal -- The officer, the mayor and the spy -- "In the darkest colors" : the decision of General Beck -- The bird and its cage : first attempt at coup d'état -- Without a network : the lone assassin -- The point of no return : pogrom and war -- The spirit of Zossen : when networks fail -- Signs in the darkness : rebuilding the conspiracy -- On the wings of thought : networks of imagination -- Brokers on the frontline : the new strategy -- War of extermination : the conspirators and the Holocaust -- Flash and liqueur bottles : assassinations attempts in the East -- Codename U-7 : rescue and abyss -- Count von Stauffenberg : the charismatic turn -- Thou shalt kill : the problem of tyrannicide -- A wheel conspiracy : the Stauffenberg Era -- The final showdown : July 20, 1944 -- The shirt of Nessus -- Motives in the twilight -- Networks of resistance -- Epilogue : knights in dirty armor : "heroes of the resistance and us".
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