The Black Chapel: A Detective Story About a Conspiracy Against Hitler
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The Black Chapel: A Detective Story About a Conspiracy Against Hitler
14.99 €
The detective story of the anti-Hitler conspiracy in Germany - from the emergence of the Third Reich to the end of World War II.
In 1938 it became clear to Hitler's entourage: Europe is on the threshold of a great war. Wehrmacht military officers and members of the Abwehr gathered around them all the lawyers, diplomats and intellectuals dissatisfied with the regime. A scattered network of resistance members, nicknamed by the Gestapo "Black Chapel", does everything to prevent bloodshed and undermine the Third Reich from within: informs the Allies about troop movements, supplies disinformation to the Nazi leadership, plans a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Notable members of the anti-Hitler cell include Colonel Hans Oster, theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and his son-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi, a staff member of the Abwehr, Germany's military intelligence service. As the war drags on, the conspiracy grows: the "Black Chapel", looking for a way to remove Hitler and implement a plan to seize power, is supported by the Commander-in-Chief and the Chief of the General Staff. The culmination is Operation Valkyrie, an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944. The explosion of the bomb, which in a briefcase carried to the meeting, barely wounds Hitler - which means imminent death for all conspirators. Fascinating and poignant, The Black Chapel is the story of men willing to risk their lives to turn from the insane path their country has embarked on.
In 1938 it became clear to Hitler's entourage: Europe is on the threshold of a great war. Wehrmacht military officers and members of the Abwehr gathered around them all the lawyers, diplomats and intellectuals dissatisfied with the regime. A scattered network of resistance members, nicknamed by the Gestapo "Black Chapel", does everything to prevent bloodshed and undermine the Third Reich from within: informs the Allies about troop movements, supplies disinformation to the Nazi leadership, plans a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Notable members of the anti-Hitler cell include Colonel Hans Oster, theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and his son-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi, a staff member of the Abwehr, Germany's military intelligence service. As the war drags on, the conspiracy grows: the "Black Chapel", looking for a way to remove Hitler and implement a plan to seize power, is supported by the Commander-in-Chief and the Chief of the General Staff. The culmination is Operation Valkyrie, an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944. The explosion of the bomb, which in a briefcase carried to the meeting, barely wounds Hitler - which means imminent death for all conspirators. Fascinating and poignant, The Black Chapel is the story of men willing to risk their lives to turn from the insane path their country has embarked on.
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