This is the story of some of the groups and individuals that opposed Hitler and his government and tells of their heroic efforts to rid themselves of the most evil regime in modern times. They came from many different backgrounds - Protestant pastors, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Niemoeller; the Catholic Bishop of Munster, Clements Galen and his cousin Konrad, Count von Preysing, Bishop of Berlin; politicians Otto Wels and Ernst Thalmann; students Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends Christoph Probst and Alexander Schmorell; university professor Kurt Huber; military men Claus von Stauffenberg and Admiral Wilhelm Canaris and even a member of the Waffen SS, Kurt Gerstein. Sadly by the time the Nazi regime came to an end most of those Germans who had resisted it were dead; arrested, imprisoned, tried and executed in the most barbaric manner. Violette Szabo by Susan Ottaway: 'Ottaway confirms that she is a meticulous researcher and first-rate historian.' Alliance Advocate

Author Biography

Susan Ottaway is a writer with a great interest in contemporary history and especially the lives of ordinary people who, when the need arose, undertook extraordinary tasks. Her books include stories of the man who led the Dambuster raid in 1943, a young woman who undertook a covert role with a secret army company at the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland, another young woman who gave her life in an effort to save the lives of others in an aviation accident and three agents of the secret Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. Finding it hard to believe that there were no Germans opposed to the Nazi regime she began looking for evidence of any home-grown resistance and this book is the result. Hitler's Traitors is not meant to be the definitive work about German resistance; it merely gives a flavour of what it was like to live under such a repressive government and shows that, contrary to popular belief, there were citizens of the Third Reich who risked everything to rid their country of Adolf Hitler and his evil henchmen. Sadly, today very few remember these true German patriots who fought so hard for freedom.