OH my! Dozens! [Unfortunately my library is in storage due to a house flood.]
Read everything you can find on the Resistance: the Attentat of 1944, von Stauffenberg, Canaris and Oster re intelligence:
"Being the head of Nazi Germany's military-intelligence agency, he was in a key position to participate in resistance and sabotage the Nazi war effort. As the war turned against Germany, Canaris and other military officers expanded their clandestine opposition to the leadership of Nazi Germany. By 1945, his acts of resistance and sabotage against the Nazi regime came to light and Canaris was hanged."
"The White Rose (Weiße Rose) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany. Operating from Munich between June 1942 and February 1943, they authored, printed, and distributed six anti-Nazi leaflets that condemned the regime’s atrocities and called on the German public to actively oppose"
"Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged on April 9, 1945, at the Flossenbürg concentration camp because of his active involvement in the German military resistance against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime."
"Catholic priest called Maximilian Kolbe. At Auschwitz he made the ultimate sacrifice, heroically volunteering to die to save the life of a stranger."
OH MY will you have to find these and many more books! MANY MORE books!
Well, I read a biography of Canaris. Very adroit maneuvering, but not in a position of strength. He was lucky not to have been uncovered earlier. His "acts" consisted more of disloyalty and negligence than anything overt. Passing along information, perhaps. Not a strong reed.
Nor the White Rose. Nor Bonhoeffer. Nor Kolbe. All heroic in their self-sacrifice, but that was all they accomplished.
The SS were beasts, but also fiendishly intelligent and effective about finding and dealing with traitors. The likelihood of failure and death was, I think, a great deterrent to direct action.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the scales were phenomenal men like Fritz Todt and Albert Speer. Speer alone probably prolonged the war by many months in his resourcefulness.
"Was" is the operative word. He became the successor to Dr. Todt, in charge of all industrial and transportation logistics of the regime, and then the war. One might say that his talent for systematic design and planning gave him he necessary foundation to be the "Industrial Overlord," but to say he was only an architect completely misses his role in the war.
OH my! Dozens! [Unfortunately my library is in storage due to a house flood.]
Read everything you can find on the Resistance: the Attentat of 1944, von Stauffenberg, Canaris and Oster re intelligence:
"Being the head of Nazi Germany's military-intelligence agency, he was in a key position to participate in resistance and sabotage the Nazi war effort. As the war turned against Germany, Canaris and other military officers expanded their clandestine opposition to the leadership of Nazi Germany. By 1945, his acts of resistance and sabotage against the Nazi regime came to light and Canaris was hanged."
"The White Rose (Weiße Rose) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany. Operating from Munich between June 1942 and February 1943, they authored, printed, and distributed six anti-Nazi leaflets that condemned the regime’s atrocities and called on the German public to actively oppose"
"Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged on April 9, 1945, at the Flossenbürg concentration camp because of his active involvement in the German military resistance against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime."
"Catholic priest called Maximilian Kolbe. At Auschwitz he made the ultimate sacrifice, heroically volunteering to die to save the life of a stranger."
OH MY will you have to find these and many more books! MANY MORE books!
Well, I read a biography of Canaris. Very adroit maneuvering, but not in a position of strength. He was lucky not to have been uncovered earlier. His "acts" consisted more of disloyalty and negligence than anything overt. Passing along information, perhaps. Not a strong reed.
Nor the White Rose. Nor Bonhoeffer. Nor Kolbe. All heroic in their self-sacrifice, but that was all they accomplished.
The SS were beasts, but also fiendishly intelligent and effective about finding and dealing with traitors. The likelihood of failure and death was, I think, a great deterrent to direct action.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the scales were phenomenal men like Fritz Todt and Albert Speer. Speer alone probably prolonged the war by many months in his resourcefulness.
Speer was an architect. Yes I read his book.
"Was" is the operative word. He became the successor to Dr. Todt, in charge of all industrial and transportation logistics of the regime, and then the war. One might say that his talent for systematic design and planning gave him he necessary foundation to be the "Industrial Overlord," but to say he was only an architect completely misses his role in the war.
In the final days Speer ignored Hitler's order to destroy Berlin.