Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: COSC2U2@uhvax1.uh.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: A Tribute to the German Resistance on the Aniversery of WWII Message-ID: Date: 1 Sep 89 08:11:43 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Houston Lines: 105 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu A Tribute to The German Resistance on the Aniversery of World War II. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the many brave Christainity-Inspired German Patriots who resisted Hitler, saved many lives, lessened the attrocities, attempted Tyrannicide, and generally sacrificed their lives for Germany, for the World, and for God. I acknowledge these men individually. The list is by no means complete: THE ABWEHR/GERMAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE Admiral Wilhelm Canaris - Chief of Military Intelligence. Recruited many Jews from Concentration Camps to deliver messages to the Free World. His 1938 attempt to arrest Hitler was foiled at the last minute by Chamberlain's Appeasement. Hung in Flossenburg. General Hans Oster - Second in Command in the Abwehr. Architect of most of the Tyrannicide attempts. Tipped off Swiss, Belgians, and Norwegians of Nazi intent. Hung in Flossenburg. Hans Gisivius - Former Gestapo Agent who left to serve in the Foriegn Office at Switzerland because of his abhorrance to attrocities, and because of a Death Threat from Heydrich-Suss. Ranking Surviving member of the Abwehr. A July 20th Conspiritor. Dietrich von Bonhoeffer - Pastor, Writer, and Agent. Critic of the Churches in Germany who compromised Doctrines to suit the needs of the Government. Used Foreign Contacts to enlist the aid of the British. Hung at Flossenburg. Hans Mueller - Agent who kept lines of communication open to the British through the Vatican. Hans von Dohnanyi - Half-Jewish Brother-in-Law to Bonhoeffer. Oster's right hand man. Hung at Flossenburg. Paul Thummel - Agent A-54 of Czech underground. Holder of Gold Nazi Party Badge. Abwehr Agent. Because of a crisis involving him and Canaris, the Czech underground ambushed Heydrich-Suss. Died in Concentration Camp. GESTAPO Arthur Nebe- Concentration Camp Commander. Attempted to mitigate Nazi Policies at great personal risk, according to Gisivius and Schlabrendorf. July 20th Conspiritor. Apparently missing after the war. Count von Helldorf- Police Chief of Berlin and former boss of Gisivius. July 20th Conspiritor. Executed. OBERCOMMANDO WEHRMACT/OKW General Ludwig von Beck - A Chief of General Staff who resigned in protest to Nazi Policy. July 20th Conspiritor. Died in Coup attempt. Col. Hennig von Treskow - Planter of March 4th bomb. Suicide in July 20th Conspiricy to avoid informing on friends. Col. Fabian von Schlabrendorf - Senior OKW survivor of July 20th Conspiricy. Retrieved March 4th bomb. Miraculously acquited of Tyrannicide in People's Court after allied bombing raid killed the judge. Sent to Flossenburg, but missed his hanging through administrative oversight. Liberated. Col. Klaus von Stauffenberg - July 20th assassin. Scion of Catholic nobility who declared that he could not know happiness unless he tried the tyrannicide. Executed in Coup attempt. General von Stuelpenagel - Military Governor of France who led the revolt of the French Occupation Forces in July 20th Putsch. Executed. CIVILIANS Julius Leber - Labor leader whose arrest precipitated July 20th attempt, and Stauffenberg's choice for next German Premier. Executed Jan. 1945. Helmuth von Moltke - Abwehr Legal Council who advised adherance to lawful behavior of occupation forces to curtail partisan activity. July 20th Conspiritor. Executed. Hjalmar Horace Greely Schact - Former President of Reichs Bank. Responsible for stopping 1923 Inflation. Contact with Gisivius to pass secrets to allies. Sent to Concentration Camp where he was Liberated. Acquitted at Nuremburg of War Crimes. Carl Goerdeler - Lord Mayor of Leipzig, the would-be Thomas Jefferson of Germany. The War cost him his 2 sons. He was concerned with writing the new Constitution, recruiting Military Leaders, and the Postwar Punishment of Hitler Regime Criminals. Executed. AMERICANS William J. Donovan - Contact and rescuer of Gisivius. Lent moral support to July 20th attempt. Gisivius testified against Goering and for Schact at Nuremburg as a result of his intervention Sources: Hohne - Canaris Gallant - Operation Valkurie Schlabrendorf - Germans against Hitler Gisivius - To the Bitter End