This is a pattern that repeats again and again. As early as 1937, emissaries from the German resistance attempted to make contact with the U.S. and British governments and warn them about the threat Hitler poses to the rest of the world. But statesmen in the West remain profoundly skeptical that a German resistance actually exists. An illustrative memo written by an official at the British Foreign Office asks: “Are the stories which reach us of dissident groups in Germany genuine?”
