Sie wollten Hitler töten

by Guido Knopp, Alexander Berkel, Anja Greulich

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Genres: History

350 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Guido Knopp is a German journalist and author. He is well known in Germany, mainly because he has produced a great number of TV documentaries, predominantly about the Nazi era, but also about other topics, such as Stalinism.

Reviews

[Feiraco · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have read a Dutch translation of this book by Guido Knopp, which was written in German in 2004. It focuses on the notorious 20 July 1944 attack on Hitler by Claus Schenk Von Stauffenberg and his fellow conspirators, and starts with the best-known other attempts to kill Hitler (by Elser, and the 1943 plane bomb, etc). Knopp does well in telling these stories in a few dozen pages, and gives a lot of background to the 1944 Wolfsschanze attempt. The book is very well readable and Knopp provides many of storylines surrounding those events. In my version the boxed texts are a bit disturbing, as there are quotes in frames which makes pages look like some sort of study book. It diverts attention from the main text. It was Knopp who compared Tom Cruise to Joseph Goebbels, in the period that Cruise portrayed Von Stauffenberg in the well-known movie Valkyrie.

[Jules Van Der Kloos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Goed geschreven boek over onder andere operatie Walküre

[Heik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Neemt je mee naar naar verschillende aanslagen met als doel: het vermoorden van Hitler.