Randall Hansen
Författare till Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945
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Randall Hansen is currently a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Merton College, University of Oxford.
Verk av Randall Hansen
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- Hansen, Randall
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- 1970-02-02
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- Canada
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- Université d'Oxford, Royaume-Uni (Doctorat, Sciences politique)
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- Professor
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- University of Toronto
Merton College, Oxford University (tutorial fellow in politics)
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Disobeying Hitler by Randall Hansen is an excellently researched and written account of those few senior German officers who disobeyed Hitler’s orders and could have faced execution themselves. This book accounts for the German resistance in the final years of the war after the executions of von Stauffenberg and Rommel in July 1944.
When the Russians started turning the tide of the war and pushing back the German Army Hitler gave orders that not an inch of ground was not to be given and a scorched earth policy was placed up on the command and mayors. Nowhere was this example truer than the destruction of Warsaw after the uprising when not a building was left standing and human suffering was the highest.
Some officers and citizens saw that this plan was utter madness and this book gives their account. Some of the opposition was to save some of the cities of Germany from complete destruction with the withdrawal of the army and the coming allies. A common sense approach one could say.
There are three chapters given over to General Choltitz and his actions in saving Paris from being levelled to the ground. Hansen makes it clear that was not due to ideological difference he was as anti-Semitic as other German officers. He did put up some sort of resistance towards the defence of Paris, enough to convince Hitler he was doing all he could to hold the city. More practically Choltitz did not have the men or equipment to hold or destroy Paris.
Hansen also examines the German Army’s willingness in the murder of Jews that it was not all down to the SS. He is trying to make people understand that the SS were not alone in anti-Semite actions.
We also see Albert Speer’s actions examined, the munitions minister who wanted to preserve as much as he could. Hansen also points out that this was probably more down to his own self-preservation.
Disobeying Hitler has been well researched and highlights the much forgotten story of the very few who actually ignored Hitler’s ranting orders. He does show that there were fanatics in both in the SS and army who were willing to destroy everything and everyone as the pulled back to Berlin. This is about those who for varying reasons did the opposite. Hopefully this book will remind people that there were others who opposed Hitler other than the participants in the July plot of 1944.
This is an excellent history well written and well researched giving us a glimpse at some of the morally hazy individuals who were making decisions to save what they could for after the war. This book brings their stories to life and is a reminder that it is sometimes the decisions we make not to do something can be as important as what we decide to do.… (mer)