Word: trott
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...Trott's later efforts against the regime were interpreted by the American and British governments in light of this and other blunders. When Trott journeyed to England in June of 1939 and at the beginning of the war to the United States, many of his former friends thought he had become a Nazi. Trott, unfortunately, was too guarded in his explanations of the German underground to dispel such fears...
...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...
...attempt at a coup was thus a failure. In July of 1944, a few days after the attempt on Hitler's life, most of the leaders of the resistance were arrested. Trott went to his execution on August 26. A month before, he had told a friend that the English must bear some guilt for the failure of the plot against Hitler...
MacDonogh deserves thanks for clarifying Trott's part in the resistance. Unfortunately, only the most stout of heart will be able to put up with MacDonogh's tortured prose long enough to understand the complex life of this German hero...