Hitler and his generals: honour, loyalty and the Trent Park transcripts

© 2013 Ryan EdwardsThis thesis will focus on the German General Staff and evaluate the battle, both internally and externally, between loyalty to Hitler and loyalty to one’s own conscience. Key questions that will be addressed will be how committed were the Wehrmacht generals to the Oath of Allegiance they swore to Hitler? And did this commitment wane towards the end of the war? Who did the generals blame for the outcome of the war? What was the reaction toward those, like Colonel Stauffenberg, who tried to assassinate Hitler? Why, in spite of the realisation that the war would not end favourably, did the Wehrmacht fight so doggedly as the war approached its conclusion? (From introduction