Insurrection

Send us Fan Mail Once the coup collapsed, the Nazis outdid themselves in their fury. It remained to be seen who would be caught in their net. Some conspirators committed suicide. Some managed to escap...

23 Aug 202448min

Send us Fan Mail Once the coup collapsed, Fromm hesitated, then returned to his office, where Stauffenberg, Beck, Olbricht, Mertz and Hoepner were held under guard. Beck tried to shoot himself. He onl...

16 Aug 202424min

Send us Fan Mail Claus von Stauffenberg took his briefcase bomb to three conferences with Hitler. On 11 July 1944 he attended a conference in the Berghof, in the Bavarian alps, but generals in the co...

2 Aug 202441min

Send us Fan Mail With over a million slave workers in Germany, the Nazis feared an uprising. They prepared a plan for the Army to handle any such revolt. Echoing Wagner’s Ring, they called it ‘Operati...

26 Jul 202438min

Send us Fan Mail In February 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl, students calling themselves ‘The White Rose’, were arrested for distributing leaflets calling for peace. The Nazis tried them for treason – a...

19 Jul 202429min

Send us Fan Mail In November 1939, Georg Elser, acting alone, planted an immense bomb in the Beer Hall cellar in Munich. Using two high-precision clocks, he timed it to explode at the midpoint of Hitl...

12 Jul 202436min

Send us Fan Mail 1938 was the year when the tide of Hitler’s ambition should have broken against widespread international and internal opposition. Instead, it was the year when his tsunami was unleash...

5 Jul 202456min