5 Programme for Post–Hitler Emergency Governance, January–February 1940

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acronyms ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Internal Policy
7. Constitution
8. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Attack upon Hitler’s Leader Concept, January–February 1933 13
9. Otto Wels against Passage of the Enabling Act, 23 March 1933 20
10. Law for the Restoration of Ordered Conditions in the State Judiciary System (Provisional Basic Constitutional Law), 1938–1940 26
11. Helmuth von Moltke’s Constitutional Concepts for the Reconstruction of Germany, October 1940 42
12. Programme for Post–Hitler Emergency Governance, January–February 1940 56
13. Co–ordination Meeting of Anti–Hitler Plotters, 8 January 1943 66
14. The Kreisau Circle’s Preparations for Hitler’s Overthrow, August 1943 75
15. Socialist Proclamation Drafted by Carlo Mierendorff, 1943 98
16. Persecution of the Churches
17. Confessing Church Memorandum to Reich Chancellor Hitler, July 1936 101
18. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Decision against Emigration, June 1939 117
19. Father Alfred Delp SJ’s Motivations to Oppose Hitler 122
20. Persecution of Jews
21. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Church and the Jewish Question, April 1933 137
22. Pastor Julius von Jan’s Protest against the 9 November 1938 Pogrom, 16 November 1938 156
23. Johannes Popitz, Prussian Minister of Finance, Protest against the 9 November 1938 Pogrom 182
24. Ulrich von Hassell on the 9 November 1938 Pogrom 186
25. Carl Goerdeler’s Plan to Protect the World’s Jews, 1941/1942 192
26. Euthanasia
27. Sermon of Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster, 3 August 1941 211
28. Ulrich von Hassell on Bishop von Galen’s Sermons, August 1941 227
29. Foreign Policy
30. Lieutenant–General Ludwig Beck, Chief of the General Staff of the Army, on an Unofficial Visit to Paris, 16–20 June 1937 231
31. Ulrich von Hassell’s Statement on Conditions of Peace, February 1940 238
32. Foreign–policy Objectives of the Kreisau Circle, April 1941 247
33. Carl Goerdeler’s Peace Plans, 1941–1944 263
34. Adam von Trott zu Solz: Peace Missions 1939–1944 284
35. Military Resistance
36. Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg to His Father, April 1926 319
37. Lieutenant–General Ludwig Beck’s Coup Preparations, July 1938 322
38. Captain Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg to Brigadier Georg von Sodenstern, February–March 1939 331
39. Major Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg on War Crimes, August 1942 336
40. Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg’s Programmatic Statement, July 1944 340
41. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Report, July 1944 343
42. Bibliography 347
43. Index 359