Название: Hitler's Last Plot: The 139 VIP Hostages Selected for Death in the Final Days of World War II
Автор: Ian Sayer, Jeremy Dronfield
Издательство: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306921553
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 30,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
In April 1945, as Germany faced defeat, Hitler planned to round up the Third Reich's most valuable prisoners and send them to his "Alpine Fortress," where he and the SS would keep the hostages as they made a last stand against the Allies. The prisoners included European presidents, prime ministers, generals, British secret agents, and German anti-Nazi clerics, celebrities, and officers who had aided the July 1944 bomb plot against Hitler—and the prisoners' families. Orders were given to the SS: if the German military situation deteriorated, the prisoners were to be executed—all 139 of them.