Nein! Standing up to Hitler 1935–1944

В свои последние дни Адольф Гитлер бушевал в своем бункере из-за того, что его предал собственный народ, потерпел поражение изнутри. Отчасти он был прав. К 1945 году его армии были разгромлены на всех фронтах, его режим рухнул, и многие бежали от возмездия за свои преступления. Тем не менее, еще до начала войны в гитлеровском командовании были немцы, занимавшие очень высокое положение и стремившиеся добиться его смерти и поражения. В книге "Нет! Противостояние Гитлеру 1935-1944" Пэдди Эшдаун впервые рассказывает историю тех, кто находился на самом верху гитлеровской Германии, кто сначала пытался предотвратить Вторую мировую войну, а затем лишить Гитлера победы. Основываясь на недавно обнародованных файлах, раскрываются неоднократные попытки заговорщиков предупредить союзников о планах Гитлера. Книга на английском языке. In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right. By 1945, his armies were being crushed on all fronts, his regime collapsing with many fleeing retribution for their crimes. Yet, even before the war started, there were Germans very high in Hitler’s command committed to bringing about his death and defeat. Paddy Ashdown tells, for the first time, the story of those at the very top of Hitler’s Germany who tried first to prevent the Second World War and then to deny Hitler victory. Based on newly released files, the repeated attempts of the plotters to warn the Allies about Hitler’s plans are revealed. What is revealed is that the anti-Hitler bomb plots, which have received so much attention are, in fact only a small part of a much wider story; one in which those at the highest levels of the German state used every means possible – conspiracy, assassination, espionage – to ensure that, for the sake of the long-term reputation of their country and the survival of liberal and democratic values, Hitler could not be allowed to win the war. It is a matter of record that the European Union we have today and the nature and central position of Germany within it, is, in very large measure, the future envisaged by the plotters and for which they gave their lives.