Kill the Fuhrer (eBook)

Section X and Operation Foxley

Denis Rigden (Autor)

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2011
240 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7524-7574-5 (ISBN)

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During the Second World War, Britain's top secret Special Operations Executive plotted to assassinate Hitler. A small department of SOE known as Section X had the tantalisingly complex task of investigating how, when and where their plan could be executed. The section also plotted the killing of Goebbels, Himmler and other selected members of Hitler's inner circle. Only Section X and a handful of other SOE staff had any knowledge of these projects, codenamed Operation Foxley and Operation Little Foxleys. As history has shown, these schemes turned out to be pipe dreams. Even so, Section X, renamed the German Directorate in 1944, made a huge contribution to the Allied war effort through their organised sabotage and clandestine distribution of black propaganda. Denis Rigden describes Section X's efforts to discover as much as possible about the intended assassination targets, and questions whether a successful Operation Foxley would have helped or hindered the Allied cause. Based on top secret documents and private sources and illustrated with archive photographs, 'Kill the Fuhrer' is an intriguing insight into the shadowy world of Britain's wartime secret services.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2011
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: assassinate hitler • assassination • black propaganda • clandestine • german directorate • Goebbels • Himmler • Hitler • operation little foxleys • Sabotage • Second World War • Secret services • Section X and Operation Foxley • Section X and Operation Foxley, SOE, special operations executive, hitler, goebbels, himmler, operation little foxleys, german directorate, sabotage, clandestine, black propaganda, assassination, assassinate hitler, secret services, second world war, world war ii, world war 2, ww2, wwii • SOE • Special Operations Executive • World War 2 • World War II • ww2 • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-7524-7574-6 / 0752475746
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-7574-5 / 9780752475745