Word: kreisau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moltke said "My friends [in the Kreisau Circle] made plans for a future democratic Germany...
...second half of the biography, which details Trott's movement into the resistance, provides a much more compelling picture than the first half of the book. MacDonogh's eye for detail, which obscures Trott's pre-war life, helps to illuminate the inner workings of the Kreisau resistance circle, which planned out a blueprint for post-war Germany...
MacDonogh convincingly argues that the Kreisau plot against Hitler could have succeeded if the Allies had lent more support to the resistance. Instead, when approached through secret channels, both the English and American governments ignored Trott's pleas for help...
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