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Bezig met laden... Admiraal Wilhelm Canarisdoor Heinz Höhne
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Workman like but not especially interesting. ( ) A detailed, well-written biography of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, who was killed on Hitler's orders due to his implication in plots to bring down the Nazi government. Unfortunately, the book is marred by the author's conventional leftist bent. Höhne not only fails to credit Canaris as a man of conscience--his antipathy drives the author to underrate Canaris' effectiveness as intelligence chief. Canaris comes off as a slack-witted fool, and clearly no "master spy". One must ask how a fool could have survived so long in the Nazi hierarchy--without ever cozying up to Hitler. Briefly put, Höhne cannot understand that a man can be both an arch-conservative and anti-Nazi. This is a common failing of the intellectual elite of today: they must believe that a man of the right is necessarily an enemy. Yet, as historian John Lukacs has noted, the strongest opposition Hitler faced came not from the left, but the right. Consider Churchill: hardly a liberal, he was the Nazis' most implacable enemy. Just so with Canaris: the German spy chief might best be described as "arch-conservative", even "imperialist" (in the sense of desiring a return to the old Imperial government), but he nurtured the core of military resistance against Hitler; a resistance that twice would try to kill Hitler during the war, and that would have killed him before the war started--had they not been paralyzed by Chamberlain's astounding trip to Munich. Still, this book shows abundant scholarship, and should be read (critically) on that account. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Head of the Abwehr (German military intelligence) during World War II, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris (1887-1945) has been both damned as Hitler's master spy and praised as the true hero of the German anti-Nazi resistance. What emerges in Heinz Hohne's definitive biography is a panoramic view of the rise and fall of Nazism as reflected in the destiny of one man who hoped, for patriotic purposes, to harness evil temporarily, only to be destroyed by it. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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