Traitors or Patriots?: A Story of the German Anti-Nazi Resistance

By Louis R. Eltscher

Little is known today of the extent and intensity of the anti-Nazi activity that occurred inside Hitlers Germany. Even less is known about those whose courage and conviction drove them to riskand loseeverything to bring the Third Reich to an end.

Drawing on extensive sources, author Louis Eltscher examines the role of German anti-Nazi resistance inside the Third Reich in Traitors or Patriots? Beginning with the postWorld War I German society that led to Hitlers role as fhrer, Eltscher documents the rise of anti-Nazi activity, different types of resistance groups, and the difficulties in achieving organization.

In addition, Eltscher discusses the role of the German Army in great detail. He reveals how the resistance determined that Hitlers elimination by the Germany Army remained the key to success. Eltscher profiles key resistance figures, considers the reality of an omnipresent totalitarian police state, and studies the moral issues the resistors faced.

Presented within the broader context of German history and contemporary world events, this comprehensive study relies on extensive historiography by noted scholars to produce a well-balanced, timely narrative of the German resistance to one of historys most violent regimes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jul 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781475981438

Louis R. Eltscher

Louis R. Eltscher is the professor emeritus of German History at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, where he taught for thirty years. He is a graduate of Houghton College, New York, and the American University in Washington, DC. He seeks to reconcile his own German heritage with the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany. Eltscher resides in Dryden, New York.