Before I lay me down to sleep…
I find the CNN overview of the night’s festivities to be very good: lots of videos and a slideshow.
Sehenswert, as the Germans would say. (“Worth a look”.)
Bill Dawson is an American citizen who, having married an Austrian, lives and works in Vienna, Austria. A programmer by trade, he studied history as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley. A 15-page essay exploring the paths to treason taken by two of the most important members of the German military resistance to the National Socialist regime: General Ludwig Beck and Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
Choosing Disloyalty: Ludwig Beck & Claus von Stauffenberg
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From Beck's fastidious professionalism to Stauffenberg's aristocratic romanticism, the essay explores their rejection of the Hitler Oath and describes the thought processes they undertook to rationalize their eventual commitment to tyrannicide.
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Mary Fulbrook
The People's State: East German
Society from Hitler to Honecker
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