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Peter Hoffmann
Colonel (G.S.) Henning von Tresckow and the Coup Plans in 1943
Keywords: Henning von Tresckow im Widerstand, Staatsstreichpläne gegen Hitler 1943
At the end of November 1943 in the German Army High Command Headquarters near Angerburg, Major Joachim Kuhn, co-conspirator of the military resistance against Hitler, buried drafts of orders and radio proclamations which were to be issued and broadcast after Hitler′s assassination to enable a coup. In February 1945, as a prisoner-of-war in Soviet custody, Kuhn had to show this hiding place to his captors. The documents were taken to Moscow and eventually placed into the archive of the KGB. They provide the key to Tresckow′s central role in the conspiracy against Hitler in 1943. They also throw new light upon the surprisingly broad agreement in the Wehrmacht and specifically in the Army High Command with attempts to disempower Hitler.
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag
Print ISSN: 0042-5702
Volume: 55, 02/2007
Pages: 331 - 364