Hans Berndt Gisevius Quotes
I will not demean myself by being a common thief, stealing trivia from office filing cabinets, but I will give you the name of every general in Germany who wishes to see Hitler dead.... In the meantime, I will tell you when my friends are planning to assassinate the Fuhrer.
Hans Berndt Gisevius, German Diplomat, Statement to American World War II OSS agents suggesting he become an agent
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He was shot in 1944 for his involvement in an attempt to kill Hitler
He had been part of a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. There were a small group of Anti Nazi Germans during WW II. Carnaris was one. Most were killed.
In 1937 four nationalist army columns were converging on Madrid in the Spanish Civil War. General Mola was asked which column would take Madrid. His reference to the sympathizers inside the city became a universal term for traitors.
Harrison, then a young Captain, was concerned about the French, British and Spanish agents "plotting" in the United States:
The Nazis occupied the cities, but the partisans survived in the mountains. The resistance was ferocious and very effective. From a German Soldier’s point of view, the Yugoslav front was the most dangerous assignment where his odds of being killed was even greater than the Russian front.
The names cited were the British police and military forces. Fraternization was considered spying and brought death. That year the IRA executed over 100 of their fellow Irishmen, with no trial or chance to defend themselves. Some were scores and personal grudges being settled and others mistakes.
Lincoln was the first President who had ever been elected who was overtly and publicly opposed to slavery. As a result of that and other positions Lincoln took, there were many who would have liked to see him assassinated and there were others who talked of seizing the government in Washington before the radical new President could be sworn in and inaugurated. The plot was not carried out however.
Traitors and spies were their terms for Southern sympathizers in the Federal Government. Many of these would pass information to the rebels.
Most of the Jews in the Vilnius ghetto were killed, many fighting the Germans. Kovner ironically survived.
Although the FBI had identified the emerging Nazi danger in the United States as early as 1933, the military, and the Congress were not aware of their findings. Nor were the media and the public.
In 1993 Mooshood Abiola was the apparent victor in the Nigerian presidential election, but the election was `nullified' by the previous President and military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida. Abiola announced he would attempt to form a government anyway.
When John L. Lewis called for a miners’ strike in 1943, the Communists lashed out at him and accused him of being a Nazi sympathizer. Communist patriotism was not due to fondness for the United States and their military; in fact, before Hitler invaded Russia at the beginning of World War II, communists, for the most part, were outspoken opponents of U.S. militarism.
The woman was kidnapped from her home and shot.
When the Second World War started, Gisevius joined the German intelligence service, the Abwehr, which was headed by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, who was secretly an opponent of Hitler. Canaris had surrounded himself with Wehrmacht officers opposed to Hitler and he welcomed Gisevius into this group. Working from the consulate in Zürich, Hans Gisevius was involved in secret talks with the Vatican. Canaris arranged for appointment of Gisevius as Vice Consul in Switzerland, where Gisevius met with Allen Dulles in 1943 and agreed to serve as a liaison for the German opposition to Hitler, an assembly which counted among its members General Ludwig Beck, Abwehr Chief Canaris, and Mayor Carl Goerdeler of Leipzig. Several members of the conspiratorial circle against Hitler including Gisevius, "all kept homes within easy walking distance of each other." According to Gisevius, the original plot to kill Hitler earlier (namely, before the acquiescence of Great Britain over the Sudetenland) was utterly derailed by Neville Chamberlain whose actions he claims "saved Hitler."
