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Endnotes

[1]  Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh,  Secret Germany:  Stauffenberg and the Mystical Crusade against Hitler (New York:  The Penguin Group, 1994), 138.

[2] Joachim Kramarz, Stauffenberg:  The Architect of the Famous July 20th Conspiracy to Assassinate Hitler (New York:  The MacMillian Company, 1967), 29-30.

[3] Kramarz, 32.

[4] Peter Hoffman, Stauffenberg:  A Family History, 1905-1945 (New York:  Cambridge Press, 1995), 46.

[5] Kramarz, 43.

[6] Kramarz, 43.

[7] Peter Hoffman, The History of the German Resistance:  1933-1945 (Cambridge:  The MIT Press, 1977), 316.

[8] Kramarz, 49.

[9] Baigent and Leigh, 158.

[10] Baigent and Leigh, 159.

[11] Kramarz, 77.

[12] Kramarz, 78.

[13] Kramarz, 65.

[14] Baigent and Leigh, 160.

[15] Kramarz, 101.

[16] Baigent and Leigh, 173.

[17] Constantine FitzGibbon, 20 July (New York:  W.W. Norton and Company, 1956), 38.

[18] Pierre Galante, Operation Valkyrie:  The German Generals Plot Against Hitler (Philadelphia:  Harper & Row, 1981), 187.

[19] Anton Gill, An Honourable Defeat:  A History of the German Resistance (New York:  Henry Holt & Company, 1956), 233.

[20] James P. Duffy and Vincent L. Ricci, Target Hitler:  The plots to kill Adolf Hitler (Westport, Connecticut:  Harvard University Press, 1998), 143.

[21] Duffy and Ricci, 143.

[22] Joachim Fest, Plotting Hitler’s Death:  The Story of the German Resistance, (New York:  Henry Holt & Company, 1994), 219.

[23] Fest, 220.

[24] Eberhard Zeller, The Flame of Freedom:  The German Struggle against Hitler, (Coral Gables, Florida:  University of Miami Press, 1969), 275.

[25] Fest, 254.

[26] Fest, 258.

[27] Gill, 246.

[28] Gill, 249.

[29] Hoffman, History of the German Resistance, 507.

[30] Hoffman, History of the German Resistance, 508.

[31] Theodore S. Hammerow, On the Road to the Wolf’s Lair:  German Resistance to Hitler, (Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1997), 370.

[32] Hammerow, 370.

[33] Hammerow, 376.

[34] Hammerow, 404

[35] Hammerow, 405.

 

Images

Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.   Retrieved on 23 February 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://www.answers.com/topic/claus-von-stauffenberg#Wikipedia

Wolfschanze Conference Room.  Anton Gill,  An Honourable defeat: A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994)

SS Soldiers.  Joachim Fest,  Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997)

Sculpture.  Constantine FitzGibbon, 20 July. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1956)

Field Marshall von Wartenburg.  Retrieved on 07 February 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://www.punahou.edu/js/gradek/f/yorckvonwartenburg.html

Field Marshall von Gneisenau.  Retrieved on 03 February 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/riley/787/Napoleon/Prussia/Commanders/gneisen.html

The poet Stefan George.  Hoffmann, Peter.  Stauffenberg. A Family History, 1905-1944.  Revised and translated by the author. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995)

Cadet Stauffenberg.  Hoffman, Peter. Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Claus and Nina von Stauffenberg.   Stauffenberg. A Family History, 1905-1944. Revised and translated by the author. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995)

The Rise of National Socialism.  Retrieved on 06 March 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://www.usgennet.org/de/topic/ddgn/weimar/

Adolf Hitler.  Retrieved on 06 March 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/06/1089000137461.html?from=storylhs&oneclick=true

Hitler at a Nazi Party rally.  Retrieved on 29 January 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/GALL31R/05459.htm

Ernst Rohm.   Retrieved on 29 January 2005 from the World Wide Web:   http://www.adolfhitler.ws/lib/nsdap/Rohm.html

Joseph Goebbels.  Retrieved on 01 February 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://www.inidia.de/goebbels_redet.jpg

One of the thousands of Jewish owned stores.  Retrieved on 05 February 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://www.csusm.edu/dmasur/webquest/Ionesco.html
 

Prime Minister of Great Britain, Neville Chamberlain.  Retrieved on 18 March 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain

Stauffenberg during the Polish Campaign.  Hoffman, Peter. Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Stauffenberg during the invasion of France.  Hoffman, Peter. Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Stauffenberg in Russia.  Hoffman, Peter. Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Stauffenberg with fellow officer.  Theodore S. Hamerow, "On the Road to the Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997)

Stauffenberg with Brigadier General Baron von Broich.  Hoffman, Peter. Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Stauffenberg with his children.   Hoffman, Peter. Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Freidrich Olbricht.  Joachim Fest,  Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997)

Henning von Tresckow.   Retrieved on 12 March 2005 from the World Wide Web:   http://www.stadtakademie.de/programme/programm04a.htm 

Carl Goerdeler.  Retrieved on 11 March 2005 from the World Wide Web:   http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERgoerdeler.jpg

General Freidrich Fromm.  Retrieved on 12 March 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Fromm.html

Captain Axel von dem Bussche.  Retrieved on 22 March 2005 from the World Wide Web:  www.lemgo.de/images/ Personen/Bussche8a.jpg

Riechsmarshall Hermann Georing.  Retrieved on 02 April 2005 from the World Wide Web:   http://www.stefanjacob.de/Geschichte/Unterseiten/Zeittafel.php?Intern=6

Riechsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler.  Retrieved on 02 April 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://www.seminaire-sherbrooke.qc.ca/hist/hist5/travaux/biog/H/himmler.htm

Stauffenberg meeting with Hitler.  Theodore S. Hamerow, On the Road to the Wolf's Lair: German Resistance to Hitler. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997)

Hitler inspects damage.  Anton Gill, An Honourable defeat: A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945.  (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994)

Hitler addressing the nationPlotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997)

Conspiracy's end.  Retrieved on 23 February 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://www.gdw-berlin.de/index-e.php

Roland Freisler.  Retrieved on 20 February 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/freisler.htm

Stauffenberg's Brother.  Retrieved on 18 March 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://www.worldwar2database.com/cgi-bin/slideviewer.cgi?list=julyplot.slides&dir=&config=&refresh=&direction=forward&scale=0&cycle=off&&slide
=5&design=default

Plotzensee Prison.  Retrieved on 16 February 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://pictures.rise-above.net/europe/plotzensee_prison_july_plot_execution_room.jpg

Berlin Wall.  Retrieved on 16 February 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://www.poedem.ru/smap/nf/CtPics/id/1694/

Memorial in the Bendler Block.  Retrieved on 16 February 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://www.berlin-info.de/deutsch/sights/big/s_04_a.jpg

Memorial Plaque.  Retrieved on 16 February 2005 from the World Wide Web:  http://www.punahou.edu/js/gradek/f/commemorationday.html

 

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Baigent, Michael and Leigh, Richard.  Secret Germany:  Stauffenberg and the Mystical Crusade against Hitler.  New York:  The Penguin Group, 1994.

Duffy, James P. and Ricci, Vincent L.  Target Hitler:  The Plots to kill Adolf Hitler.  Westport, Connecticut:  Praeger Publishers, 1992.

Fest, Joachim.  Plotting Hitler’s Death:  The Story of the German Resistance.  New York:  Henry  Holt & Company, 1994.

FitzGibbon, Constantine.  20 July.  New York:  W. W.  Norton and Company, 1956.

Galante, Pierre.  Operation Valkyrie:  The German Generals Plot Against Hitler Philadelphia:  Harper & Row, 1981.

Gill, Anton.  An Honourable Defeat:  A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945New York:  Henry Holt &       Company, 1994.

Hamerow, Theodore S.  On the Road to the Wolf’s Lair:  German Resistance to Hitler.  Cambridge Massachusetts:  The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1997.

Hoffman, Peter.  Stauffenberg:  A Family History, 1905-1944.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Hoffman, Peter.  The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945.  Cambridge, Massachusetts:  The MIT Press, 1977.

Kramarz, Joachim.  Stauffenberg:  The Architect of the Famous July 20th Conspiracy to Assassinate Hitler.  New York:  The Macmillan Company, 1967.

 Zeller, Eberhard.  The Flame of Freedom:  The German Struggle Against Hitler.  Coral Gables, Florida:  University of Miami Press, 1969.

 

Secondary Sources

Baigent, Michael and Leigh, Richard.  Secret Germany:  Stauffenberg and the Mystical Crusade against Hitler.  New York:  The Penguin Group, 1994.

Duffy, James P. and Ricci, Vincent L.  Target Hitler:  The Plots to kill Adolf Hitler.  Westport, Connecticut:  Praeger Publishers, 1992.

Fest, Joachim.  Plotting Hitler’s Death:  The Story of the German Resistance.  New York:  Henry  Holt & Company, 1994.

FitzGibbon, Constantine.  20 July.  New York:  W. W.  Norton and Company, 1956.

Fritsche, Peter.  Germans into Nazis.  Cambridge, Massachusetts:  Harvard University Press, 1998.

Galante, Pierre.  Operation Valkyrie:  The German Generals Plot Against Hitler Philadelphia:  Harper & Row, 1981.

Gill, Anton.  An Honourable Defeat:  A History of German Resistance to Hitler, 1933-1945New York:  Henry Holt &       Company, 1994.

Hamerow, Theodore S.  On the Road to the Wolf’s Lair:  German Resistance to Hitler.  Cambridge Massachusetts:  The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1997.

Hoffman, Peter.  Stauffenberg:  A Family History, 1905-1944.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Hoffman, Peter.  The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945.  Cambridge, Massachusetts:  The MIT Press, 1977.

Kramarz, Joachim.  Stauffenberg:  The Architect of the Famous July 20th Conspiracy to Assassinate Hitler.  New York:  The Macmillan Company, 1967.

John, Otto.  Twice Through the Lines.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1972.

Manvell, Roger and Fraenkel, Heinrich.  The Men Who Tried to Kill Hitler.  New York:  Coward – McCann Incorporated, 1964.

 Mason, Herbert Molloy.  To Kill the Devil:  The Attempts on the Life of Adolf Hitler.  New York:  W. W. Norton and Company, 1978.

 Moltke, Freya von.  Memories of Kreisau and the German Resistance.  Lincoln, Nebraska:  The University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

 Shirer, William L.  The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich:  A History of Nazi Germany.  New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1960.

 Zeller, Eberhard.  The Flame of Freedom:  The German Struggle Against Hitler.  Coral Gables, Florida:  University of Miami Press, 1969.


 

 

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