After Valkyrie: Military and Civilian Consequences of the Attempt to Assassinate Hitler

by Don Allen Gregory

Overview

After Operation Valkyrie—the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize control of the German government—both the Third Reich and Hitler came to a violent end. Hitler promised a classless fatherland before he became chancellor and had covertly been liquidating Germany's elite officer corps long before Stalingrad. Today it is possible to reconstruct and connect important events and biographies of the principle characters to chronicle the disappearance of Germany's officer class, its nobility and, for a time, its civilian leadership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476671529
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date:	11/22/2018
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.52(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Don Allen Gregory is distinguished professor of physics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
1. The Beginning of the End
2. Prehistory: Assassination Attempts and Resistance Groups
3. Investigations and Deceptions
4. Courts and Judges
5. Trials by Any Other Name
6. Suicides, Attempted Suicides and Unexplained Deaths
7. Survivors
8. The Beginning: A Germany Without Hitler or an Officer Corps
9. Epilogue and an Outsider’s Observations
Appendix A: German Titles and Military Ranks
Appendix B: Prisoners Transferred from Dachau
Appendix C: Erika Canaris’ Letter to General William Donovan
Appendix D: The Morgenthau Plan
Appendix E: The Marshall Speech
Bibliography
Index