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Resisters

• Ludwig Beck [r]: (1880-1944) General in the German Army, became f Army Chief of Staff in 1933 with the rise of the Nazis but removed in 1938 for plotting against the regime; member of the German Resistance; committed suicide after the failure of the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler; the conspirators planned to install him as Head of State ^[e]
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer [r]: Christian theologian and long-term anti-Nazi; arrested and executed following 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler ^[e]
• Wilhelm Canaris [r]: Rear Admiral in the German Navy during WWII; commanded Abwehr military intelligence service, which contained many anti-Nazi conspirators and was eventually absorbed by the SS; eventually executed at Flossenburg Concentration Camp ^[e]
• Erich Fellgiebel [r]: General of Communications Troops (equiv. Allied lieutenant general) in the WWII German Army, overall military communications chief; failed to cut Adolf Hitler's communications after the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler and thus doomed the Operation Valkyrie coup; executed ^[e]
• Carl Goerdeler [r]: (1884-1945) German lawyer and elected politician before the Nazis came to power; prominent member of the German Resistance from the late 1930s, executed February 1945 for participation in the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler ^[e]
• Paul von Hase [r]: (1885-1944) Generalleutnant of the WWII German Army and member of the German Resistance, who, after being too badly wounded for front-line duty, commanded the Berlin garrison; after the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, he urged coup conspirators to seize the city, but was arrested, tried and executed ^[e]
• Arvid Harnack [r]: (1901-1942) German legal scholar, with a doctorate in philosophy, in the Reich Ministry of Economics, who joined the Nazi Party for cover; with his wife, Mildred Harnack, spied for Red Orchestra ring of the Soviet Union in the interest of ending the war; arrested September 1942 and executed in December ^[e]
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• Ulrich von Hassell [r]: (1881-1944) German diplomat; entered Foreign Office in 1908; dismissed for anti-Nazi views 1938; joined Ludwig Beck and Carl Goerdeler in assassination planning; tried to recruit Franz Halder, Friedrich Fromm and Erwin Rommel; arrested and executed after 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler ^[e]
• Julius Leber [r]: (1891-1945) German liberal journalist, elected to Reichstag 1924 and became part of anti-Nazi bloc, arrested by Nazis in 1933, held for 4 years; rejoined opposition; arrested for suspicion in 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler and executed after two months of silence ^[e]
• Helmuth James von Moltke [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Artur Nebe [r]: German police officer before the Nazis, first sympathetic then part of the resistance; headed KRIPO and then an Einsatzgruppe; executed for anti-Nazi activities ^[e]
• Friedrich Olbricht [r]: (1888-1944) Generalleutnant and Chief of Staff of the Ersatzheer under Friedrich Fromm; planner of Operation Valkyrie with Ludwig Beck and Carl Goerdeler; issued Valkyrie order; shot by Fromm's order, along with Claus von Stauffenberg, the night of the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler; ^[e]
• Hans Oster [r]: Officer in the WWII German Army; Deputy Chief of the Abwehr military organization reporting to Admiral Wilhelm Canaris; active member of the German Resistance; eventually executed in Flossenburg Concentration Camp ^[e]
• Erwin Rommel [r]: Field Marshal in the WWII German Army; distinguished German junior infantry officer in WWI; especially noted for leadership in the WWII North African and Atlantic Coast campaigns; forced to commit suicide by Hitler when implicated as his replacement as Head of State by the 20th of July plot ^[e]
• Fabian von Schlabrendorff [r]: (1907-1980) Attorney who became wartime adjutant to Henning von Tresckow; member of German Resistance who tried to bomb Hitler's plane in 1943 but was not discovered; arrested in 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, acquitted of treason; judge of the German Constitutional Court (1967-1975) ^[e]
• Adam von Trott zu Solz [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Claus von Stauffenberg [r]: (1907-1944) [Count von Stauffenberg] Colonel, German Army; Chief of Staff of the Ersatzheer; led 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, personally placed bomb, and was executed that night ^[e]
• Henning von Tresckow [r]: (1901-1945) Generalmajor in the German Army and an early member of the German Resistance; Chief of Staff of Army Group South (Russian Front) at the time of the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, but aware of it and committed suicide after the coup failed ^[e]
• Peter Yorck von Wartenburg [r]: (1904-1944) German civil servant who refused to join the Nazi Party in 1938, joining the German Resistance; worked on new constitution after Kristallnacht with Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg and Ulrich-Wilhelm von Schwerin von Schwanenfeld; brother-in-law of Claus von Stauffenberg; executed for the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler ^[e]
• Ernst von Weizsaecker [r]: Add brief definition or description

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