By Joachim Fest
Tiem and back, small numbers of Germans, civilian nad army, noble and ignoble, scheme to topple the Fuhrer, and on numerous events they got here inside mins - or inches - of succeeding. Fest explores why they attempted, why they discovered so little aid both in Germany or open air it, and why they failed.
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He had been skeptical of the Nazis prior to 1933 but, like most of his fellow officers, initially approved of Hitler's foreign policy and therefore hesitated for a time once the new regime came to power. The Röhm affair served to clear his mind. Though not particularly politically minded at first, he nevertheless possessed sufficiently strong values and clarity of vision to understand the devastating defeat that the Reichswehr had inflicted on itself. The despotism in the land, daily growing more palpable in countless ways, the curtailment of the rule of law, and the emerging struggle against the churches prompted this parson's son from Dresden to progress from mere reservations about the regime to fundamental hostility toward it.
1 Oster's chosen emissary was Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, a worldly, courageous, and selfless conservative from Pomerania. In mid-January 1933 he had sought an interview with Hindenburg in a vain attempt to prevent Hitler's nomination as chancellor and had subsequently withdrawn in disdainful rage to his country estate. On several occasions he had already approached English friends with warnings about Hitler's expansionist designs. " Everything else he had to say, however, made as little impression as did his later interviews with Lord Lloyd and Winston Churchill.
Their success in doing so may have encouraged them in their erroneous belief that the army would indeed play a major role on the political stage. Shortly thereafter, brushing aside economic objections raised by the president of the Reichsbank, Hjalmar Schacht, the army succeeded, this time with Hitler's help, in establishing the fundamental primacy of military objectives. Anticipating Germany's return to military might, though it was far from being realized, Hitler decided in early March 1936 to reoccupy the demilitarized zone in the Rhineland-another in the series of bold moves with which he continued to surprise the world.
