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Title Behind Valkyrie : German resistance to Hitler : documents / edited by Peter Hoffmann.

Publication Info. Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2011]
Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012.
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 372 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-357) and index.
Contents Internal policy. Constitution. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's attack upon Hitler's leader concept, January-February 1933 ; Otto Wels against passage of the Enabling Act, 23 March 1933 ; Law for the Restoration of ordered conditions in the State Judiciary System (Provisional Basic Constitutional Law), 1938-1940 ; Helmuth von Moltke's constitutional concepts for the reconstruction of Germany, October 1940 ; Programme for Post-Hitler Emergency Governance, January-February 1940 ; Co-ordination meeting of anti-Hitler plotters, 8 January 1943 ; The Kreisau Circle's preparations for Hitler's overthrow, August 1943 ; Socialist proclamation drafted by Carlo Mierendorff, 1943.
Military resistance. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg to his father, April 1926 ; Lieutenant-General Ludwig Beck's coup preparations, July 1938 ; Captain Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg to Brigadier Georg von Sodenstern, February-March 1939 ; Major Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg on war crimes, August 1942 ; Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg's programmatic statement, July 1944 ; Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's report, July 1944.
Summary "While the "Valkyrie" plot to kill Hitler is the best known instance of German oppositon to his dictatorship, there were many other significant acts of resistance. Behind Valkyrie collects the documents, letters, and testimonies- many available in their entirety and in English for the first time- of Germans who fought Hitler from within."--Page 4 of cover.
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Language Includes some text in German.
Subject Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- History -- Sources.
Anti-Nazi movement.
Germany.
History.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Government, Resistance to -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Government, Resistance to.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 -- Sources.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1933-1945
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Hoffmann, Peter, 1930-
Other Form: Print version: Hoffmann, Peter. Behind Valkyrie : German Resistance to Hitler, Related Documents. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2014 9780773537699
ISBN 9780773587144 (electronic book)
0773587144 (electronic book)
9780773537699 bound
9780773537705 paperback