The German heroes who helped Allies against Hitler (1 Viewer)

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Just read this passage in a book and it seems appropriate.

From "Defeat In The West" by Milton Shulman, pg 170-171:

(about 20 July 1944)

"But the one resistance group, without which the entire plot would have been impossible, came from the officer corps of the German Army. Since it possesed the only means of achieving a physical seizure of power it constituted the most important active element concerned with the mechanics of the putsch itself. The steady encroachment of Hitler upon the political independance of the army inevitably left scars which even military victories could not heal. The dismissal of von Fritsch and von Blomberg, which enabled Hitler to assume personal control of the Wehrmacht, was followed by the protests of the General Staff against Hitler's plan to occupy Czrchoslovakia. This latter incident resulted in the resignation of Colonel-General Ludwig Beck, Chief-of-Staff of the Army, and the almost complete domination of the officer corps by Hitler. But unlike Beck, unlike von Fritsch and von Blomberg, was unwilling to accept the degeneration of the army's independance as a fait accompli. It was Beck, who, as early as 1938, began to assemble about him the military figures dicontented enough with the Nazi regime to oppose it actively. In him was centered the hope and ambition of the conspirators of 20th July.
.... Beck, coming from a family of businessmen and intellectuals, possesed a non-military background which fitted him well for his role as a link between the civilian and military elements of the conspiracy. Conscientious and tireless in his activities, he had been greatly respected by the officer corps during his term as Chief-of-Staff, and he was thus able to draw into the plot high-ranking officers who trusted his ability and judgement. Beck's political views were Conservative and neither original nor profound. His hostility towards the Nazis stemmed chiefly from the feeling that they had damaged the prestige and authority of the army and had thereby inflicted upon the German nation a serious wrong which would eventually lead it to disaster."

Just trying to shed some light on the motivations of a traitor/conspirator/patriot/etc.
 

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