Key Figures/descriptions

Question 1

ww1 veteran, resigned commission over military conduct. Wanted to arrest Hitler in 1938. Would have been president if coup was successful.

Answer 1

Ludwig Beck

Question 2

General, Exiled for scandal (nude pictures of wife were leaked).

Answer 2

Werner Von Blomberg

Question 3

Plan to assassinate Hitler utilizing a coat that he would model. Officer of the Wehrmacht. Believed the attempt was an act of simple moral compassion.

Answer 3

Axel von dem Bussche

Question 4

Admiral of the German Navy. Head of military intelligence (Abwehr). Both a beneficiary and victim of Nazism. Known as a Spy-master.

Answer 4

Wilhelm Canaris

Question 5

Potential Communist sympathizer. Planted explosive in the Munich Beerhall in an attempt to assassinate Hitler. Was 10 minutes late.

Answer 5

Georg Elser

Question 6

Wrongly accused of being a homosexual. Fired from general staff.

Answer 6

Werner Von Fritsch

Question 7

Drafted a constitution. Believed in freedom of press. Price commissioner. Wrote to Hitler in an attempt to persuade him. Mayor of Leipzig.

Answer 7

Carl Freidrich Goerdeler.

Question 8

Diplomat, Warned allies in an attempt to save lives. Ambassador in Italy. Sent messages to the pope and allies.

Answer 8

Ulrich Von hassel

Question 9

Founder of the Kraisau circle, international lawyer. Worked for the foreign division of the abwehr.

Answer 9

Moltke

Question 10

Soul of the German resistance, worked for the abwehr as the deputy director. Main purpose was communications within the resistance. Warned the Dutch of invasion.

Answer 10

Hans Oster

Question 11

20th of July plot, believed faith was needed to oppose the reich. Rewrote valkyrie order to exclude the S.S and expedite the process of recentralizing Berlin.

Answer 11

Claus Von Stauffenberg

Question 12

Dutch theologian, head of the world council of churches, go between for resistance and allies

Answer 12

Willem Visser’t Hooft

Question 13

Grandson of the Kaiser, some wanted him to be the monarch post coup.

Answer 13

Louis Ferdinand

Question 14

Journalist, interviewed Hitler prior to becoming chancellor, friends with Moltke, american.

Answer 14

Dorothy Thomspon

Question 15

Moltke wrote letter to him, was never delivered. Founder of chatted house and think tank.

Answer 15

Lionel Curtis

Question 16

sizable number of women members 1/6th, communist organization, mildred fish harneck

Answer 16

red orchestra

Question 17

conference in 1927, hitler announced wanting to invade other countries, caused distaste within German officer corps.

Answer 17

Hossbach Memorandum

Question 18

Friend of Louis Ferdinand, son of German immigrants, head of associative press in Berlin,

Answer 18

Louis Lochner