Hitler’s generals

THE WEHRMACHT: SMALL WORLD

The animosities, even hatreds, between Hitler and his generals are legendary. The generals, to be sure, were impressed by the Austrian corporal’s diplomatic triumphs, and some—like Keitel—became worshipful of the Führer. But with military catastrophe came the ultimate disillusionment that ended with the attempt on Hitler’s life on July 20, 1944. Harold C. Deutsch now shows us that, if impending defeat drove the conspirators to act, the conspiratorial apparatus—if one may call it that—had begun to form at least two years before the war during the sordid Blomberg-Fritsch affair.

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Jack Chatfield

THE WEHRMACHT: SMALL WORLD

The animosities, even hatreds, between Hitler and his generals are legendary. The generals, to be sure, were impressed by the Austrian corporal’s diplomatic triumphs, and some—like Keitel—became worshipful of the Führer. But with military catastrophe came the ultimate disillusionment that ended with the attempt on Hitler’s life on July 20, 1944. Harold C. Deutsch now shows us that, if impending defeat drove the conspirators to act, the conspiratorial apparatus—if one may call it that—had begun to form at least two years before the war during the sordid Blomberg-Fritsch affair.