- Hardcover: 452 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press (30 April 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0674636805
- ISBN-13: 978-0674636804
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 17 x 3.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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While refusing to exonerate the men who had sought to overthrow the Nazi regime, Hamerow's study nonetheless explores their social backgrounds, personalities, ideals, and attitudes in a way that reflects the complex and often contradictory nature of their motives and actions...His tale is one that emphasizes the complex interplay of resistance, support, indifference, compromise, and vacillation.--Manfred B. Steger "Southern Humanities Review "
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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."
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Early on July 21, 1944, a few hours after the failure of the attempt on his life, Adolf Hitler declared in a radio address to the German people that those involved in the plot constituted "a very small clique of ambitious, unscrupulous, and at the same time criminally stupid officers." Read the first page
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Early on July 21, 1944, a few hours after the failure of the attempt on his life, Adolf Hitler declared in a radio address to the German people that those involved in the plot constituted "a very small clique of ambitious, unscrupulous, and at the same time criminally stupid officers." Read the first page
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Contrary to popular understanding, the members of the German military, civil service, and church who opposed Hitler in 1944 had little allegiance to democratic principles, and had mostly welcomed National Socialism. Some quickly became disillusioned by Nazi barbarism. Others were inert until their beloved Germany seemed doomed to total destruction. Many, interestingly, were not opposed to the goals of National Socialism, but only to its policies or methods. In the end, as martyrs, they became symbols of a new, united, democratic Germany.
Their complex and evolving history is well told in this thorough and highly readable account, which will be essential for students of the German resistance, and of interest to anyone concerned with the history of Nazi Germany.
Their complex and evolving history is well told in this thorough and highly readable account, which will be essential for students of the German resistance, and of interest to anyone concerned with the history of Nazi Germany.
(The "score" rating is a fault of the format. This reviewer does not "score" books.)
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German resistence to Hitler
17 Feb 2009
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A lot has been written on this topic over the years; however, with Prof. Hamerow's name on the cover of this book, the reader is promised historical scholarship of the highest order, and a new take on the conspiracies between 1940-44.
This treatise is indeed indispensable to a proper understanding of what went on in Germany and the German resistence. Additionally, it is written
in a style which carries the reader forward, and makes it hard to put the
book down. Highly recommended by this reader.
This treatise is indeed indispensable to a proper understanding of what went on in Germany and the German resistence. Additionally, it is written
in a style which carries the reader forward, and makes it hard to put the
book down. Highly recommended by this reader.
13 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Valuable insights.
1 Dec 1997
Format:Hardcover
Contrary to popular understanding, the members of the German military, civil service, and church who opposed Hitler in 1944 had little allegiance to democratic principles, and had mostly welcomed National Socialism. Some quickly became disillusioned by Nazi barbarism. Others were inert until their beloved Germany seemed doomed to total destruction. Many, interestingly, were not opposed to the goals of National Socialism, but only to its policies or methods. In the end, as martyrs, they became symbols of a new, united, democratic Germany.
Their complex and evolving history is well told in this thorough and highly readable account, which will be essential for students of the German resistance, and of interest to anyone concerned with the history of Nazi Germany.
Their complex and evolving history is well told in this thorough and highly readable account, which will be essential for students of the German resistance, and of interest to anyone concerned with the history of Nazi Germany.
(The "score" rating is a fault of the format. This reviewer does not "score" books.)
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