HomeResistance Within GermanyResistance of German Aristocracy1938 -First Coup Attempt1942 - Plan Valkyrie1943 - The"Perfect" Assassination AttemptJuly 15, 1944July 20, 1944General FriedrichOlbrichtAn Obsolete HonorHitler's Demons-Kindle EditionAuthorInterviewValkyrie Teacher Supplement and Discussion GuideReaders View ReviewMidwestBook ReviewHistoricalNovel Society ReviewKay's Bookshelf ReviewVideo Trailer of bookCodename ValkyrieAllies Response to Germany'sResistanceHitler's PopularitySources - FurtherReadingGerman Army Military RanksGlossaryBiographyLinksWeb RingsAwardsGuest BookAuthorSiteAuthor'sBlogPlanValkyrieTheGerman Conspiracy against the Nazi Regime culminating inthe CoupAttempt of 20 July 1944On July 20, 1944 a bomb exploded at Hitler's daily briefing. It was the last in a series of assassination attempts against Hitlercarried out by a group of military conspirators.  Shortlyafterwards, using a legitimate military plan codenamed "Valkyrie,"senior officers of the German Home Army tried to seize power in anattempt to free Germany from the criminal Nazi regime.But this assassination attempt, like all those before it, had failed.In consequence, within hours orders were soon issued from Hitler'sheadquarters countermanding "Valkyrie."  In some militarydistricts, such as France, the subordinate commanders were anti-Naziand they followed the "Valkyrie" orders without hesitation.The local Gestapo and SS were rounded up and detained. But inother military districts, the news that Hitler had survived theassassination attempt was sufficient grounds for disregarding"Valkyrie" and following the orders from Hitler's headquarters instead.So the only uprising by Germans against the Nazi regimecollapsed.In the night of July 20, 1944, the first men associated with thisGerman revolt against Hitler's dictatorship were executed withouttrial.  The first man to fall to the vicious Nazi retributionwas the man who had from early 1942 onwards developed and nurturedthe coup d'etat plans, Plan "Valkyrie":  General FriedrichOlbricht. Thousands of other conspirators and their sympathizersfollowed and were liquidated in a bloody retribution.Who were the men behind the conspiracy?  Was it really just a"tiny clique of criminally stupid officers" as Hitlerclaimed?  And was Claus Graf Stauffenberg - the only personnamed by Hitler - really the driving force behind it?This website is dedicated to providing information about the keymilestones on the way to July 20, 1944 and introducing the key actors
in this drama.  It challenges the prevailing myths about
Stauffenberg's dominant role in the military conspiracy and so attempts
to do justice to the other military conspirators, most especially
General Friedrich Olbricht, one of the most consistent, determined and
effective of all the German Resistance leaders.
NEW
KINDLE EDITION!
HITLER'S
DEMONS:
Hitler's
Demons were those Germans who opposed his diabolical regime on moral
grounds.  They sought to defend human dignity and resto