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    Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935–1944
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    Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935–1944
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    Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935–1944

    Written by Paddy Ashdown

    Narrated by Paddy Ashdown

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    From the bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler from 1935 – 1944

    In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right. By 1945, his armies were being crushed on all fronts, his regime collapsing with many fleeing retribution for their crimes. Yet, even before the war started, there were Germans very high in Hitler’s command committed to bringing about his death and defeat.

    Paddy Ashdown tells, for the first time, the story of those at the very top of Hitler’s Germany who tried first to prevent the Second World War and then to deny Hitler victory. Based on newly released files, the repeated attempts of the plotters to warn the Allies about Hitler’s plans are revealed. Key strands to the book’s narrative lie with the actions of Abwehr head Admiral Wilhelm Canaris to frustrate Hitler’s policies once the war had started; the plots to kill Hitler and, finally the systematic passage of key German military secrets to London, Washington and Moscow through MI6, the OSS (fore-runner to the CIA) and the “Lucy Ring” Russian spy network based in Switzerland. From 1943 onwards, concerted efforts were made to strike a separate peace with the West to shorten the war and prevent eastern Europe falling under the Soviet yoke.

    What is revealed is that the anti-Hitler bomb plots, which have received so much attention are, in fact only a small part of a much wider story; one in which those at the highest levels of the German state used every means possible – conspiracy, assassination, espionage – to ensure that, for the sake of the long-term reputation of their country and the survival of liberal and democratic values, Hitler could not be allowed to win the war. It is a matter of record that the European Union we have today and the nature and central position of Germany within it, is, in very large measure, the future envisaged by the plotters and for which they gave their lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateOct 4, 2018
    ISBN9780008257064
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    Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935–1944
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    Paddy Ashdown

    After service as a Royal Marine Commando Officer, Paddy Ashdown served as a diplomat in the Foreign Office before being elected as the Member of Parliament for Yeovil, serving in that capacity from 1983 to 2001. In 1988 he became leader of the Liberal Democrats, standing aside after eleven years of leading his Party. Later he was appointed as the international community’s High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving from 2002 to 2006.

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    • 5/5
      Exceptional new analysis of people, politics, military culture. I thought I knew the topic but this had more insights.
    • 5/5
      This is an outstanding volume that chronicles the opposition to Hitler's regime starting as early as 1935. The research performed to create this volume is immense. Much of the book is centered on Admiral Wilhelm Canaris who command the Abwehr, the German Intelligence organization. Much of his effort was to appear to work for Hitler but at the same time undermine the regime.However, there were many German citizens both civilian and in the military who opposed Hitler and many coup attempts were organized and many assassinations planned but foiled mostly by timing and Hitler's amazing luck.I am fascinated by what it would have been like to live in Hitler's Germany and search out books written by people who were there. This effort explains how deeply the the dislike of Hitler and his regime was felt in Germany and to what risks its citizens went to slow him down and defeat him.
    • 5/5
      This was a surprising book. I expected an account of the numerous small-scale attempts by individuals and tiny groups of decent Germans to oppose the Nazi regime, such as the famous White Rose group. Instead, this book is more like a detailed account, almost day by day, of a conspiracy that began in the mid 1930s and culminated in the 20 July 1944 attempted assassination of Hitler. Central to the conspiracy was Admiral Canaris, head of the Abwehr, and secret opponent of the Nazis. Why it took nearly a decade for the assassination attempt to finally happen is explained in some detail, but the lengthy period is also an answer to those who claim that the German generals and politicians involved in the 1944 conspiracy were doing so only because Germany had already lost the war. As Ashdown points out, many of the conspirators were involved even while Hitler was triumphant. I found some of Ashdown’s conclusions a bit harsh, such as a his condemnation of Roosevelt for insisting on unconditional surrender rather than a negotiated peace with Germany. But on the whole an interesting book telling a largely unknown story. What a pity that it was Paddy Ashdown’s last, as he passed away earlier this year.