Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in the German Resistance to Hitler

Between East and West

Bibliographic Data

ID8957119
AuthorsPeter Hoffmann (0000-0002-6587-1646, McGill University, corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume31
Issue3
Pages629-650
Publication date1988-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Historical Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0018246x00023529
OpenAlexW2098076231
LanguageEN
References cited16

Within a few months of Hitler's appointment as Reich chancellor (30 January 1933), opposition was driven underground. Illegally organized opposition was on the whole destroyed by the Gestapo (secret state police); opposition within the establishment (vice-chancellor von Papen, SA chief of staff Röhm) was suppressed in a round of murders; the rest was gradually intimidated, as in the case of the churches. The opposition surviving underground could not act effectively to change the regime. It became clear that in the Nazi police state opposition could not be effective without support from the principal non-Nazi force in the nation, the army

Ancient history · Archaeology · German · Nazi Germany · Nazism · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity

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