The
fight for freedom
The
story of the German resistance to Hitler
by Danny Orbach
"a soldier's
obedience finds its limits where his knowledge, his conscience and his
responsibility forbid to obey orders."
colonel general
Ludwig beck - the chief of general's staff of the german army (1932-1938).
Rastenburg, east prussia, 20th
july 1944. The time is 12:42 am. A bomb explodes in the general's stuff
cabin, where Hitler and his officers discuss the military situation. The
cabin become a bunch of ruins, and some of the people inside are killed
or badly hurt. Hitler, that was protected by the heavy wooden table- was
spared.
In the same time, the man who
planted the bomb, Colonel Count Claus Von Stauffenberg, drove out of the
base to the nearest airport. From there he took a plane to Berlin, where
the first open revolt against the nazi regime was about to begin. Colonel
general Ludwig Beck, the leader of the secret anti-nazi underground that
was founded six years before, formed a new government and its members tried
to activate their friends and supporters in the german army, in order to
neutralize the S.S and the other forces that kept loyalty to Hitler's dictatorship.
Beck, Stuaffenberg and their
friends succeeded to control Berlin for few hours, until the nazi forces
captured the coup center in Berlin. Some of the coup members made a suicide,
others were killed by the nazis, and only few of them were able to survive
in order to tell the world one of the most amazing stories in W.W.II and
in the 20th century's history.
Click on
the chapters to read their story:
Chapter
One: The Beginning
Chapter
Two: Resistance In The Army
Chapter
Three: Halder's Conspiracy
Chapter
Four: General Von Treskow: The Fight For Freedom In The East
Chapter
five: Operation Spark
Chapter
six: The Kreisau Circle: Building The Future
Chapter
seven: Colonel Von Stauffenberg
Chapter
Eight: The True Legend Of The White Rose
Chapter
Nine: 20th July, 1944: For Freedom!
Chapter
Ten: before the Nazi Court: Heroism In The Last Moments.
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