The Red Orchestra

Author : Shareen Blair Brysac
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923884
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resisting Hitler written by Shareen Blair Brysac and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-23 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping and heartbreaking narrative is the first full account of an American woman who gave her life in the struggle against the Nazi regime. As members of a key resistance group, Mildred Harnack and her husband, Arvid, assisted in the escape of German Jews and political dissidents, and for years provided vital economic and military intelligence to both Washington and Moscow. But in 1942, following a Soviet blunder, the Gestapo arrested, tortured, and tried some four score members of the Harnacks' group, which the Nazis dubbed the Red Orchestra. Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined in Berlin on February 16, 1943, on the personal instruction of Adolf Hitler--she was the only American woman to be executed as an underground conspirator during World War II. Yet as the war ended and the Cold War began, her courage, idealism, and self-sacrifice went largely unacknowledged in America and the democratic West, and were distorted and sanitized in the Communist East. Only now, with the opening of long-sealed archives from Germany, the KGB, the CIA, and the FBI, can the full story be told. In this superbly told life of an unjustly forgotten woman, Shareen Blair Brysac depicts the human side of a controversial resistance group that for too long has been portrayed as merely a Soviet espionage network.

Author : Anne Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350322415
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Orchestra written by Anne Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, the history of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany was hidden and distorted by Cold War politics. Providing a much-needed corrective, Red Orchestra presents the dramatic story of a circle of German citizens who opposed Hitler from the start, choosing to stay in Germany to resist Nazism and help its victims. The book shines a light on this critical movement which was made up of academics, theatre people, and factory workers; Protestants, Catholics and Jews; around 150 Germans all told and from all walks of life. Drawing on archives, memoirs, and interviews with survivors, award-winning scholar and journalist Anne Nelson presents a compelling portrait of the men and women involved, and the terrifying day-to-day decisions in their lives, from the Nazi takeover in 1933 to their Gestapo arrest in 1942. Nelson traces the story of the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle) resistance movement within the context of German history, showing the stages of the Nazi movement and regime from the 1920s to the end of the Second World War. She also constructs the narrative around the life of Greta Kuckhoff and other female figures whose role in the anti-Nazi resistance fight is too-often unrecognised or under appreciated. This revised edition includes: * A new introduction which explores elements of the Red Orchestra's experience that resonate with our times, including: the impact of new media technologies; the dangers of political polarization; and the way the judiciary can be shaped to further the ends of autocracy. The introduction will also address the long-standing misconception that the German Resistance only took action when it was clear that Germany was losing the war. * Historiographic updates throughout the book which take account of recent literature and additional archival sources

Author : V. E. Tarrant
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780304351299
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Orchestra written by V. E. Tarrant and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a real-life spy story, straight from the heart of the Second World War. This triumph of espionage by the Soviet Military Intelligence took the Nazis over two years to crack. Made up of a diverse mixture of Russians, Jews, Poles, and other Europeans (including some Germans), the Red Orchestra played a vital role in the destruction of Nazism--despite the constant fear of discovery. Many were tortured. But, by the time the Germans finished their investigation, the Eastern front was already lost.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rote Kapelle written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om den sovjetiske gruppe Rote Kapelle og dens arbejde med spionage i Vesteuropa og andre steder i årene op til, og under den 2. Verdenskrig 1939-45. Gruppen samarbejdede med den sovjtiske efterretningstjeneste i landene Belgien, Holland, Frankrig, Tyskland, Schweiz og diverse andre lande. Bogen fortæller om gruppens arbejde og organisation, og der er et afsnit med korte biografier over personerne.

Author : Norman Ohler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838952136
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Infiltrators written by Norman Ohler and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gilles Perrault
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Orchestra written by Gilles Perrault and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1989 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : V. E. Tarrant
Publisher : Trade Paper Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Orchestra written by V. E. Tarrant and published by Trade Paper Press. This book was released on 1996-02-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a Soviet spy network inside Nazi Germany.

Author : Anne Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350322415
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Orchestra written by Anne Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, the history of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany was hidden and distorted by Cold War politics. Providing a much-needed corrective, Red Orchestra presents the dramatic story of a circle of German citizens who opposed Hitler from the start, choosing to stay in Germany to resist Nazism and help its victims. The book shines a light on this critical movement which was made up of academics, theatre people, and factory workers; Protestants, Catholics and Jews; around 150 Germans all told and from all walks of life. Drawing on archives, memoirs, and interviews with survivors, award-winning scholar and journalist Anne Nelson presents a compelling portrait of the men and women involved, and the terrifying day-to-day decisions in their lives, from the Nazi takeover in 1933 to their Gestapo arrest in 1942. Nelson traces the story of the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle) resistance movement within the context of German history, showing the stages of the Nazi movement and regime from the 1920s to the end of the Second World War. She also constructs the narrative around the life of Greta Kuckhoff and other female figures whose role in the anti-Nazi resistance fight is too-often unrecognised or under appreciated. This revised edition includes: * A new introduction which explores elements of the Red Orchestra's experience that resonate with our times, including: the impact of new media technologies; the dangers of political polarization; and the way the judiciary can be shaped to further the ends of autocracy. The introduction will also address the long-standing misconception that the German Resistance only took action when it was clear that Germany was losing the war. * Historiographic updates throughout the book which take account of recent literature and additional archival sources

Author : Heinz Höhne
Publisher : Harvill Secker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Codeword: Direktor written by Heinz Höhne and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1971 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om den sovjetiske spionageorganisation "Rote Kapelle" og det tyske kommunistparti (KPD), der leverede spioner og agenter til russerne i tiden 1918-1943. Bogens tyngde er Rote Kapelles virksomhed umiddelbart før og under 2. Verdenskrig samt ikke mindst den tyske kontraefterretningstjenestes og Gestapos modforanstaltninger. Haves på tysk.

Author : Giles Perrault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786717800775
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Orchestra written by Giles Perrault and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: