As the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition achieved increasing success in the fight against their Axis opponents, several allies and satellites of Nazi Germany chose to abandon the struggle and side with the United Nations (Italy, Finland, Romania, Bulgaria), or at least attempted to do so (as in the case of Slovakia). In some instances, this shift was accompanied by the overthrow of existing pro-German authorities or uprisings in which the military played a significant role. Unlike these states, Germany resisted to the end, and the Nazi regime was destroyed not by the Germans themselves, but by the victorious Red Army entering Berlin. B.L. Khavkin’s book is devoted to the history of the German Resistance. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the author attempts to answer the question of why the German people failed to overthrow the Nazi regime and its Führer on their own, despite the presence of influential forces within Germany who sought to do so.
World War II; Great Patriotic War; Resistance movement; Nazi Germany; Wehrmacht.