Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After Valkyrie

by Randall Hansen

Book Overview

On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was executed in the courtyard of the Third Reich's military headquarters in Berlin for attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. A member of the unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Nazi government -- codenamed Operation Valkyrie -- Stauffenberg was shot by a firing squad along with his co-conspirators, and their bodies were dumped in a shallow grave.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199927928
• ISBN13: 9780199927920
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"