Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935–45

523 Pages·2018·18.44 MB·English

by  Paddy Ashdown

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Dedication
To Hans Oster, preux chevalier
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Epigraphs
Introduction
Main Dramatis Personae
Map: Berlin’s administrative district
Map: Germany, 1944
Prologue
1 Carl Goerdeler
2 Ludwig Beck
3 Wilhelm Canaris
4 Madeleine and Paul
5 Germany in the Shadow of War
6 The Emissaries
7 ‘All Our Lovely Plans’
8 March Madness
9 The March to War
10 Switzerland
11 Halina
12 Sitzkrieg
13 Warnings and Premonitions
14 Felix and Sealion
15 The Red Three
16 Belgrade and Barbarossa
17 General Winter
18 The Great God of Prague
19 Rebound
20 Codes and Contacts
21 Of Spies and Spy Chiefs
22 Mistake, Misjudgement, Misfire
23 The Worm Turns
24 The End of Dora
25 Enter Stauffenberg
26 Valkyrie and Tehran
27 Disappointment, Disruption, Desperation
28 The Tip of the Spear
29 Thursday, 20 July 1944
30 Calvary
31 Epilogue
32 After Lives
Afterword: Cock-up or Conspiracy?
Reader’s Note
Picture Section
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Also by Paddy Ashdown
About the Author
About the Publisher
Illustrations
Carl Goerdeler. (Papers of Arthur Primrose Young, Modern Records Centre,
University of Warwick: MSS.242/X/GO/3)
Wilhelm Canaris. (Popperfoto/Getty Images)
Ludwig Beck. (Ullstein bild Dtl: Getty Images)
Henning von Tresckow. (Ullstein bild Dtl: Getty Images)
Hans Oster. (AfZ: NL Hans Bernd Gisevius/6.7)
Erwin von Lahousen. (ÖNB)
Hans Bernd Gisevius. (SZ Photo/Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Robert Vansittart. (Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo)
Stewart Menzies and his wife Pamela. (Evening Standard/Stringer/Hulton
Archive: Getty Images)
Neville Chamberlain on his return from Munich, September 1938.
(Keystone/Stringer/Hulton Archive: Getty Images)
Paul Thümmel, Agent A54. (UtCon Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)
Madeleine Bihet-Richou.
Ursula Hamburger (‘Sonja’).
Ursula with her children, Nina, Micha and Peter Beurton. (Courtesy of Michael
Hamburger and Peter Beurton)
Leon ‘Len’ Beurton. (Courtesy of Peter Beurton)
Halina Szymańska. (Courtesy of Marysia Akehurst)
Alexander Foote. (CRIA/Jay Robert Nash Collection)
Rachel Duebendorfer. (The National Archives, ref. KV2/1619)
Allen Dulles. (NARA 306-PS-59-17740)
Rudolf Roessler. (CRIA/Jay Robert Nash Collection)
Sándor Radó with his Geopress staff.
Sándor and Helene Radó with their two sons, June 1941. (Bundesarchiv, Berlin-
Lichterfelde)
‘De Favoriet’, the Jelineks’ shop in The Hague, c. 1939.
Bernhard Mayr von Baldegg, Alfred Rosenberg and Max Waibel.
The Wolfsschanze map room after Stauffenberg’s failed assassination attempt,
20 July 1944. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group: Getty
Images)
Stauffenberg, Puttkamer, Bodenschatz, Hitler, Keitel, 15 July 1944.
(Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)
Goerdeler on trial. (Keystone/Hulton Archive: Getty Images)
The Tirpitzufer, c.1939.
‘La Taupinière’, c. 1937.
Alexander Foote’s flat in Lausanne.
Halina Szymańska’s fake French passport.
Foote’s radio.
Station Maude, Olga and Edmond Hamel’s radio.
Halina Szymańska’s false passport. (Courtesy of Marysia Akehurst)
The Radó family’s apartment building at 113, rue de Lausanne in Geneva.
(Bundesarchiv, Berlin-Lichterfelde)
The Hamels’ radio shop in the Geneva suburb of Carouge, c.1939.
(Bundesarchiv, Berlin-Lichterfelde)
Epigraphs
Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the just Exchange their messages: May
I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.
From W.H. Auden, ‘September 1, 1939’