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Parent topics

• National Socialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Adolf Hitler [r]: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. ^[e]
• German military forces [r]: German military traditions and organization from pre-19th century unification, through the World Wars, through reunification ^[e]

Subtopics

Resisters

• Ludwig Beck [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Wilhelm Canaris [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hans von Dohnanyi [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Erich Fellgiebel [r]: General of Communications Troops (equiv. Allied lieutenant general) in the WWII German Army, overall military communications chief; failed to cut Adolf Hitler's communications after the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler and thus doomed the Operation Valkyrie coup; executed ^[e] Fellgiebel was responsible for isolating Hitler's headquarters from command and control, but failed; the Operation Valkyrie coup might have succeeded had Hitler stayed isolated.
• Eberhard Finckh [r]: Colonel, Deputy Chief of Staff West; took part in July 20 arrests of SS in Paris; executed for 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler ^[e]
• Eugen Gerstenmaier [r]: (1906-1986) Theologian; Only civilian arrested at Ersatzheer headquarters on the Bendlerstrasse, during the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler; arrested, tried, and while the death sentence was requested, received 10 years; president of the German Parliament (Christian Democrat), 1954-1969 ^[e]
• Hans Bernd Gisevius [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Carl Goerdeler [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paul von Hase [r]: (1885-1944) Generalleutnant of the WWII German Army and member of the German Resistance, who, after being too badly wounded for front-line duty, commanded the Berlin garrison; after the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, he urged coup conspirators to seize the city, but was arrested, tried and executed ^[e]
• Arvid Harnack [r]: (1901-1942) German legal scholar, with a doctorate in philosophy, in the Reich Ministry of Economics, who joined the Nazi Party for cover; with his wife, Mildred Harnack, spied for Red Orchestra ring of the Soviet Union in the interest of ending the war; arrested September 1942 and executed in December ^[e]
• Mildred Harnack [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Werner von Haeften [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ulrich von Hassell [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Caesar von Hofacker [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Erich von Hoepner [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ewald von Kleist [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Julius Leber [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Helmuth James Graf von Moltke [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Artur Nebe [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Friedrich Olbricht [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hans Oster [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Johannes Popitz [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hjalmar Schacht [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Fabian von Schlabrendorff [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ulrich-Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin von Schwanenfeld [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Adam von Trott zu Solz [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Claus von Stauffenberg [r]: Add brief definition or description Stauffenberg not only moved the discussions into action, but actually placed the 20th of July bomb. He did not, however, make certain Hitler was killed, which might have required a suicide attack.
• Henning von Tresckow [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Peter Yorck von Wartenburg [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Erwin von Witzleben [r]: Add brief definition or description

Aware but passive

• Friedrich Fromm [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Erwin Rommel [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ernst von Weizsaecker [r]: Add brief definition or description

Nazi security

• Heinrich Himmler [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Heinrich Müller [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Manfred Roeder (military jurist) [r]: Add brief definition or description