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Article: Disobedience and Conspiracy in the German Army, 1918-1945.(Book Review)
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- Military Review
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- March 1, 2004
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DISOBEDIENCE AND CONSPIRACY IN THE GERMAN ARMY, 1918-1945, Robert B. Kane, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, NC, 2002, 259 pages, $45.00.
In Disobedience and Conspiracy in the German Army, 1918-1945, Robert B. Kane investigates why some German military leaders obeyed and some defied German Chancellor Adolf Hitler during World War II. Kane methodically and thoroughly examines the relationship between Prussian and German militaries and political activities in the centuries before the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich.
By 1944 there were three types of military leaders in the Third Reich: conspirators, best exemplified by Colonel Klaus von Staufenberg, leader of ...