Hans Bernd Gisevius, who survived Hitler's retaliation after the failure of the Valkyrie conspiracy, discusses the anti-Hitler movement that began in 1933 and his recollections of the events and people involved in the planting of a bomb inside Adolf Hitler's headquarters, which exploded without killing Hitler.
Describes the history, landscape, people, culture, government, politics, and economy of Germany, and includes a glossary, fact list, and further reading list.
The author's memoir, written in 1939, of the rise of Nazism in his native Germany from 1907 to 1933, which examines the influence of such groups as the Free Corps and the Hitler Youth on the German people, and includes predictions about his nation's fate.
Describes the measures Hitler's troops took to tighten the Nazi grip on the home front without significant resistance from the German people from 1936 to 1945.