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Parent articles

• Adolf Hitler [r]: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. ^[e]
• German Resistance [r]: Individuals and groups in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945. ^[e]

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Conspirators

• Ludwig Beck [r]: (1880-1944) General in the German Army, became f Army Chief of Staff in 1933 with the rise of the Nazis but removed in 1938 for plotting against the regime; member of the German Resistance; committed suicide after the failure of the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler; the conspirators planned to install him as Head of State ^[e]
• Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld [r]: General Leutnant (major general equivalent), Commandant of the Paris garrison during 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler; escaped arrest as part of deal to release Paris SS ^[e]
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer [r]: Christian theologian and long-term anti-Nazi; arrested and executed following 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler ^[e]
• Wilhelm Canaris [r]: Rear Admiral in the German Navy during WWII; commanded Abwehr military intelligence service, which contained many anti-Nazi conspirators and was eventually absorbed by the SS; eventually executed at Flossenburg Concentration Camp ^[e]
• Hans von Dohnanyi [r]: (1902-1945) German attorney and legal adviser; attached to Abwehr in WWII; traveled abroad for German Resistance; executed for 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler ^[e]
• Erich Fellgiebel [r]: General of Communications Troops (equiv. Allied lieutenant general) in the WWII German Army, overall military communications chief; failed to cut Adolf Hitler's communications after the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler and thus doomed the Operation Valkyrie coup; executed ^[e]
• Eberhard Finckh [r]: Colonel, Deputy Chief of Staff West; took part in July 20 arrests of SS in Paris; executed for 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler ^[e]
• Eugen Gerstenmaier [r]: (1906-1986) Theologian; Only civilian arrested at Ersatzheer headquarters on the Bendlerstrasse, during the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler; arrested, tried, and while the death sentence was requested, received 10 years; president of the German Parliament (Christian Democrat), 1954-1969 ^[e]
• Carl Goedeler [r]: (1884-1944) Elected mayor of Leipzig, Germany in 1930, and holding anti-Nazi views, he resigned in 1937, and began traveling in search of a negotiated peace for Germany; worked with Ludwig Beck in the 20th of July planning; was to have been named Reich Chancellor had the coup succeeded; captured, interrogated under torture for five months, and executed ^[e]
• Ulrich von Hassell [r]: (1881-1944) German diplomat; entered Foreign Office in 1908; dismissed for anti-Nazi views 1938; joined Ludwig Beck and Carl Goerdeler in assassination planning; tried to recruit Franz Halder, Friedrich Fromm and Erwin Rommel; arrested and executed after 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler ^[e]
• Werner von Haeften [r]: (1908-44) First Lieutenant in the German Army and adjutant to Claus von Stauffenberg; assisted him with the bomb and was executed that night, with Stauffenberg, for the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler ^[e]
• Caesar von Hofacker [r]: (1896-1944) Luftwaffe lieutenant colonel on staff of Carl Stulpnagel in Paris; cousin of Claus von Stauffenberg; liaison to Erwin Rommel; noted defiance of Roland Freisler in the People's Court but still executed for 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler after extensive torture, implicating Rommel ^[e]
• Kreisau Circle [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Julius Leber [r]: (1891-1945) German liberal journalist, elected to Reichstag 1924 and became part of anti-Nazi bloc, arrested by Nazis in 1933, held for 4 years; rejoined opposition; arrested for suspicion in 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler and executed after two months of silence ^[e]
• Friedrich Olbricht [r]: (1888-1944) Generalleutnant and Chief of Staff of the Ersatzheer under Friedrich Fromm; planner of Operation Valkyrie with Ludwig Beck and Carl Goerdeler; issued Valkyrie order; shot by Fromm's order, along with Claus von Stauffenberg, the night of the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler; ^[e]
• Hans Oster [r]: Officer in the WWII German Army; Deputy Chief of the Abwehr military organization reporting to Admiral Wilhelm Canaris; active member of the German Resistance; eventually executed in Flossenburg Concentration Camp ^[e]
• Fabian Schlabrendorff [r]: (1907-1980) Attorney who became wartime adjutant to Henning von Tresckow; member of German Resistance who tried to bomb Hitler's plane in 1943 but was not discovered; arrested in 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, acquitted of treason; judge of the German Constitutional Court (1967-1975) ^[e]
• Claus von Stauffenberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Carl-Heinrich von Stuelpnagel [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Henning von Tresckow [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Peter von Wartenburg [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Erwin von Witzleben [r]: Add brief definition or description

Had knowledge

• Friedrich Fromm [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Erwin Rommel [r]: Add brief definition or description

Suppression

• Roland Freisler [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Joseph Goebbels [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Heinz Guderian [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Wilhelm Keitel [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Heinrich Müller [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hans Pannwitz [r]: Add brief definition or description Mueller's Gestapo subordinate who ran Rote Kapelle
• Ernst-Otto Remer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gerd von Rundstedt [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Otto Skorzeny [r]: Add brief definition or description

Plans

• Operation Valkyrie [r]: Add brief definition or description

Related topics

• Ersatzheer [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bendlerstrasse [r]: Add brief definition or description