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Authors: Roger Moorhouse

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29
Quoted in Sereny, op. cit., p. 530.
30
Speer, op. cit., p. 647.
31
See
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/poltest/htm
.
32
Quoted in Alan Bullock,
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
, revised edition (London, 1962), p. 794.
33
Junge, op. cit., p. 184.
34
Ibid., p. 186.
35
Ian Kershaw,
Hitler: 1936–1945 Nemesis
(London, 2000), p. 825.
36
Fest, op. cit., p. 107.
37
John Toland,
Hitler
(London, 1997 edition), p. 886.
38
Junge, op. cit., p. 186.
39
See Anton Joachimsthaler,
The Last Days of Hitler
(London, 1996), pp. 153–54.

Men of the RSD, Hitler’s most trusted bodyguard formation. Facing the camera is their commander, Johann Rattenhuber.

Hitler reviewing an honour guard of the SS
Leibstandarte
.

Maurice Bavaud

Georg Elser

The annual Nazi parade in Munich in 1938, which Bavaud hoped to disrupt so spectacularly.

Hitler speaking at the Bürgerbräukeller in November 1939. Elser’s bomb is hidden in the pillar covered by the swastika.

The aftermath of Elser’s attempt–eight were killed and sixty-two injured, but Hitler had already left the hall.

THE CONSPIRATORS OF THE
ABWEHR

Hans Oster

Friedrich-Wilhelm Heinz

Erich Kordt

Wilhelm Canaris

Chamberlain’s ‘piece of paper’, which robbed the
Abwehr
plotters of their trigger for action.

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