The new territorial command has two main tasks: to conduct and coordinate all Bundeswehr operations within Germany, and serve to mobilize troops for war operations, most immediately for the NATO offensive against Russia.
In the 1944 July Plot , the German officer Claus von Stauffenberg narrowly failed to assassinate the Nazi leader. His success would have changed the course of history – but for better or worse? Roger Moorhouse and Nigel Jones debate the issue.
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Catrine Clay has chronicled the range of brave domestic opposition to the Nazi regime, says Nicholas Jacobs
Von Schulenburg in the People’s Court on his day of execution in 1944
THE great historian of German Resistance, the Canadian-German Peter Hoffmann, calculated that 77,000 Germans lost their lives resisting Hitler. It is therefore surprising that it has taken nearly 80 years for the first book to appear in the English language written for the man and woman in the street on this important subject.
There have been good books in English on special aspects of resistance – the military resistance, the Church resistance, the Communist resistance, the Youth resistance – but this is the first book that successfully attempts to do justice to almost all forms of resistance.