Volume 30, Number 7 · April 28, 1983
The Man Who Plotted Against Hitler
By David Astor
I first met Adam von Trott in the porter's lodge of Balliol in September 1931: we were signing on as new arrivals. I had just been spending a term at Heidelberg in what was to be the last eighteen months of the Weimar Republic. This experience made me curious to get to know the German Rhodes scholars at Oxford and two of them became my friends. One was Adam, the other, Fritz Schumacher (later to become an economist and write Small is Beautiful).
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