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Broad studies of opposition to Hitler include Peter Hoffmann, German Resistance to Hitler (1988; originally published in German, 1979), and The History of the German Resistance, 1933–1945, 3rd English ed. (1996; originally published in German, 1969); Joachim Fest, Plotting Hitler’s Death (1996; originally published in German, 1994); and Theodore S. Hamerow, On the Road to the Wolf’s Lair: German Resistance to Hitler (1997). The July Plot in particular is treated in Pierre Galante et al., Operation Valkyrie: The German Generals’ Plot Against Hitler, trans. by Mark Howson and Cary Ryan (1981; also published as Hitler Lives, 1982; originally published in French, 1981); Jakob Kersten and James McMillan, The Secret of Torgau: Why the Plot to Kill Hitler Failed (1982); and Robert Weldon Whalen, Assassinating Hitler: Ethics and Resistance in Nazi Germany (1993), which examines the moral, ethical, and religious convictions of the conspirators.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Masters - Bob Hope Biography: Did Bob Hope Stick Around Too Long?. | Aug 17, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jul 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Nightlife - This Week in History: the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. | Sep 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN World - Ban Ki-moon Fast Facts. | Jun 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - The 1944 Plot to Assassinate Hitler. | Feb 05, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Weapons and Warfare - 20 July 1944 and Aftermath?IV. | May 31, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - What if the July 20 bomb plot to kill Hitler had succeeded? | Apr 02, 2024 | ||
| Links added. | Jul 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Bob Hope Biography: Did Bob Hope Stick Around Too Long?. | May 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cambridge University Library - Operation Valkyrie 1944. | Apr 06, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - The Largest Plot to Kill Hitler? Operation Valkyrie. | Feb 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: World War II Database - July Plot. | Nov 17, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 05, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Holocaust Encyclopedia - The July 20, 1944, Plot to Assassinate Adolf Hitler. | Mar 31, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 09, 2015 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Mar 21, 2012 | ||
| Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - The 1944 July Plot. | Jul 29, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 23, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 07, 2005 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |