The Conspirators: 20th July 1944 (History of 2nd World War) ebook

by Roger Manvell

Personal Name: Manvell, Roger, 1909-1987. Main Title: The conspirators: 20th July 1944. Subjects: Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20). Anti-Nazi movement -History.

Personal Name: Manvell, Roger, 1909-1987. Description: 160 p. illus. Germany -Foreign relations -1933-1945. Series: Ballantine’s illustrated history of the violent century Politics in action, no. 1. LC Classification: DD256. Dewey Class N. 94. 86. Geographic Area Code: e-gx--. World War 2 Books GG Archives Library.

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On July 20, 1944, during World War II (1939-45), a plot by senior-level German military officials to murder Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and then take control of his government failed when a bomb planted in a briefcase went off but did not kill the Nazi leader. The assassination attempt took place at the Wolfsschanze ( Wolf’s Lair ), a command post near Rastenburg, East Prussia (present-day Poland).

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During World War II he worked in the Ministry of Information, creating . Some books authored or co-authored by Roger Manvell. History of the British Film. Doctor Goebbels: His Life & Death.

During World War II he worked in the Ministry of Information, creating propaganda films for the British government. In his career, he also lectured in universities in as many as forty countries in three continents (America, Europe and the Middle East), and made a name as a broadcaster and screenwriter. He joined the Boston University faculty in 1975 teaching film history classes at the College of Communications. Images of Madness: Portrayal of Insanity in the Feature Film. Films and the Second World War. Gestapo.

Arnold Roger Manvell was the first director of the British Film Academy, author of many books on films and . During World World War II he worked in the Ministry of Information, creating propaganda films for the British government

Arnold Roger Manvell was the first director of the British Film Academy, author of many books on films and film-making, and authored and co-authored many books on Nazi Germany, including biographies of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring. During World World War II he worked in the Ministry of Information, creating propaganda films for the British government. In his career he also lectured in universities in as many as forty countries in three continents (America, Europe and the Middle East), and made a name as a broadcaster and screenwriter.

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On 20 July 1944, Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The name Operation Valkyrie-originally referring to part of the conspiracy-has become associated with the entire event.

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Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs war Manvell im britischen .

Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs war Manvell im britischen ium tätig, wo er in der Abteilung für Film ( film division ) als film officer an der Produktion von Propagandafilmen mitwirkte. Seit den 1940er Jahren veröffentlichte Manvell zahlreiche Bücher zu filmgeschichtlichen Themen. Sein bei Penguin Books im Jahr 1944 erschienenes Buch Film setzte mehr als eine Million Exemplare ab.

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Great detail right to the point . Love the series, had this book when it came out and lost it a few years back. Details the plot and shows some of the reasons it failed besides a chance kick of the foot.

Uriel

McDonald Publishing and the Imperial War Museum teamed up back in the late 1960s and early 1970s to publish this tight series of illustrated paperbacks on the history of World War I, World War II (and a few other conflicts of the 20th century), which were picked up by Ballantine in the United States. They were all divided into subjects: battles, campaigns, weapons, war leaders, politics in action, human conflict, and regalia, by color bands on the bottom, enjoying common editing and artwork, and a fairly common collection of well-known historians. They cost $1 at the time (a good deal of money) and a lot more now (being out of print).

The series as a whole is slightly outdated by the disclosures from Allied codebreaking, and suffered from being whipped together in a hurry, but they remain then and now a fine introduction to conflict in the 20th century -- if you can find them.

Adolf Hitler was the target of 43 separate assassination attempts and gained the hatred of vast numbers of his own people (to their credit). However, this book focuses on one group of plotters: the Wehrmacht and Abwehr team that came closest to dispatching Hitler with their legendary "Attentat" on July 20, 1944.

Most of the facts are extremely well-known, because the plotters did a good job of describing everything they did, and the Nazi investigators didn't miss a step in pursuing the conspirators after the bomb attempt failed. So even though this book dates back to the 1960s, the information it contains remains solid and accurate.

Even more solid is the level of writing and scholarship Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel brought to writing this book,which packs a great deal of information in a mere 175 pages, about the incredible bomb plot. It remains a staggering tale, which came within a footfall of success, undone by an unlucky move of a briefcase, and some fatal indecision by the plotters in Berlin. The prose is gripping and the story is that of a failed criminal caper in many ways.

Unlike most Ballantine books, there aren't too many maps -- just the Wolf's Lair and the conference room where Hitler nearly met his fate -- but the photographs meet the usual standard: the various plotters, some during their ghastly trials, and Hitler and his entourage at Rastenberg after the bomb exploded, touring the wreckage, greeting Mussolini, trying to look unharmed.

The assassination attempt on Hitler was an attempt by honorable Germans to save their nation, and the plotters deserve to be remembered with honor. This book is an excellent introduction to this attempt, and it shows the valor and tragedy of these courageous men. Highly recommended.

Cordabor

The Conspirators

Roger Manvell is the co-author of a series of biographical and social studies of the Nazis. He is the author or co-author of many books on film, television, and communications. This 1971 book has five chapters, a Bibliography, but no Index to its 160 pages. It is lavishly illustrated with photographs. The attempt to kill Hitler on 20 July 1944 is little known today. There were a number of conspiracies to assassinate Hitler, this is the best known. What if they had succeeded? Would it have changed the war? [I don’t think so.] The opponents of Hitler were never successful because of the power of the Secret Police (p.7). Hitler was elected Chancellor in 1933 after the arrests of many of his opponents (p.9). Conspiracy attempts by amateurs usually fail. Hitler’s control of the Army kept him in power, along with the support of the industrialists and the aristocracy.

Hitler’s bluff of war won the Munich Agreement (p.48). [No mention of intelligence sources of their failure.] The chapter “Resistance - the first generation” tells about the resistance to Hitler in the Army; nobody was prepared to act at that time. The conspirators hoped to remove Hitler and negotiate a peace before “Germany’s inevitable collapse” (p.87). The next chapter tells about the intrigues that went on. The Gestapo was suspicious and investigated. The German generals were reluctant to act. The following pages tell what happened on July 20, 1944. Hitler received minor injuries, four others were killed. Communication was halted to the outside. Stauffenberg’s strange behavior was noted. The revolt failed, the conspirators were arrested. Some were quickly shot (p.131). The ‘Aftermath’ tells of the fates of the conspirators. Some escaped arrest, those arrested were tortured to get confessions, then executed. The Allied armies kept on approaching. [What effect did this have on the morale of the soldiers and civilians?]

The plan of the generals was to eliminate Hitler, take over the government, and sign a treaty with Britain and America to fight against Soviet Russia. Was this even possible in 1944? Would public opinion allow this reversal? [I don’t think so.] If the conspirators believed this were they misled to create turmoil in Germany? Was Hitler and Nazism the worst plague in Europe since the Black Death? In October 1918 Kaiser Bill ordered the German Navy to make a suicide attack against the British Navy. The German sailors mutinied. This news caused revolts in Berlin and other cities in Germany. The Allies declared an Armistice to allow the German Army to suppress the revolts. The monarchy was abolished but other powerful forces remained in control. Conflicting interests led to political struggles. An orator attracted votes by promising a better life. You know how that worked out.