Volume 44, Number 1 · January 9, 1997
The Conspiracy That Failed
By Thomas Powers
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of the German Resistance
by Joachim Fest, translated by Bruce Little
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 419 pp., $30.00
The Unnecessary War: Whitehall and the German Resistance to Hitler
by Patricia Meehan
London: Sinclair-Stevenson (out of print)
Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944
by Peter Hoffmann
Cambridge University Press, 424 pp., $39.95
American Intelligence and the German Resistance to Hitler: A Documentary History
edited by Jürgen Heideking, edited by Christof Mauch
Westview Press, 457 pp., $35.00
The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War
by John H. Waller
Random House, 475 pp., $35.00
Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany
by Noel Annan
Norton, 266 pp., $27.50
Following the surrender of May 1945, American intelligence officers swarmed over the carcass of defeated Germany, searching for the lessons of the war. Among their reports was one compiled by US Army counterintelligence officers on 'The Political and Social Background of the 20 July Incident'—the failed attempt by German military conspirators to assassinate Hitler in 1944—which concluded:
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