[101] During their discussions for a post-Hitler future, it was agreed that various Nazi leaders like Hermann Gring and Heinrich Himmler, provided that they were willing to break with Hitler could have a leading role in a post-Nazi government. majority of Germans remained loyal to the regime during the war - however opposition did emerge from the Kreisau Circle, Beck-Goerdeler Group & the Communist Red Orchestra Most effective opposition came from : - youth groups - churches - within the military Youth Group Resistance (Swing Youth) [76] In April 1939, during a secret meeting with the British diplomat Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Goerdeler stated that if the British continued with their "containment" policy adopted in March 1939, then they might see the "Hitler adventure liquidated before the end of June [1939]. Managed Treasury Department for the production side of the business. Goerdeler's critics are offended by his suggestion that German Jews whose ancestors had not lived within the borders of the German Empire before July 1, 1871, should not be considered German citizens, but Goerdeler's defenders such as the Canadian historian Peter Hoffmann have argued that Goerdeler was trying to present the Nazi regime with an alternative to genocide. Public foreign-policy disagreements with Hitler made Beck resign as Chief of Staff in August 1938. In his "Thoughts of a Man condemned to Death", written towards the end of 1944 in prison, Goerdeler wrote: We should not attempt to minimize what has been happening, but we should also emphasize the great guilt of the Jews, who had invaded our public life in ways that lacked customary restraint. By 1941, Goerdeler had managed to establish a small informal group of sympathisers (the Beck-Goerdeler group) who discussed the idea of overthrowing Hitler. [149], A latter-day controversy about Goerdeler concerns his attitude towards anti-Semitism. [127] In March 1943, Goerdeler wrote a letter addressed to several German Army officers appealing to them to overthrow the Nazis and demanding that just one line divide Germans: "that between decent and non-decent. [81] During his London trip, Goerdeler told the British that the state of the German economy was so deplorable that war, even if it occurred, would only accelerate the German economic collapse and that Germany simply lacked the economic staying power for an extended war. Beck was Chief of General Staff and Goerdeler was Commissioner, having remained in office after the government of Heinrich Bruning. [25] After Hitler ignored Goerdeler's report, Goerdeler asked Hitler to dissolve the Reich Commissariat for Price Surveillance since there was nothing for that office to do. [3] The same year, Goerdeler married Anneliese Ulrich, by whom he would have five children. [90] At the beginning of September 1939, Goerdeler returned to Germany a dejected man. [1][3] From 1911 he worked as a civil servant for the municipal government of Solingen in the Prussian Rhine Province. [33], During his trip, the statue was demolished on Haake's orders. [114], He was finally executed by hanging on 2 February 1945 at Pltzensee Prison in Berlin with two other men: Johannes Popitz and Alfred Delp. In September 1943, Goerdeler attended a meeting at the home of Olbricht where together with his host Olbricht, General Beck and von Tresckow he finally won over the vacillating Field Marshal Kluge into joining the conspiracy. [166] Under Gestapo interrogation, Goerdeler claimed that the Holocaust was the major reason for his seeking to overthrow the Nazi regime. [148] At the meeting, Speidel speaking on behalf of Rommel made clear that his chief wanted nothing to do with any attempt to assassinate Hitler, but was prepared to serve in a government headed by Goerdeler. [122] The Israeli historian Saul Friedlnder used the "Proposals" to argue that Goerdeler was anti-Semitic, and that his differences with the Nazis on the "Jewish Question" were ones of degree, not kind. He opposed some anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust. On yesterday's episode of Beck's solo program on the . In 1930 Goerdeler became mayor of Leipzig. Goerdeler, an unyielding optimist, believed that if only he could convince enough people, he could overthrow the Nazi regime. [84] Goerdeler advised Brauchitsch that the only way to save Germany from such a war would be a putsch to depose Hitler. [47], In April 1938, Goerdeler visited London, where he advised the British government both to resist the Nazi claim to the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia and to declare that he wanted to see the area transferred to Germany as soon as possible. [10] (From 1928, under the leadership of Alfred Hugenberg, the DNVP had waged a vituperative campaign against Hindenburg and had even labeled him as one of the "November Criminals" who had allegedly "stabbed Germany in the back" in 1918. [145] As Rommel was fully engaged in preparations to resist the expected Allied landing in France all through the spring of 1944, it proved difficult for Strlin to make contact again. This was not, however, immediately known to the conspirators. [22] The appointment of Goerdeler was Hitler's response to the increasing problem of inflation. [3] From February 1918 he worked as part of the German military government in Minsk. [117], The corruption of the German officer corps by the Nazi regime via generous bribes was a source of considerable disgust and exasperation to Goerdeler. [21] Gestapo reports from 1934 record that the German public greeted the news of Goerdeler's reappointment as Price Commissioner as a positive development. [139] Goerdeler who had been the unofficial leader of the German opposition since 1937, resented the efforts of Stauffenberg, who he regarded as a dangerous "romantic socialist", to take over the conspiracy. Main telephone: 202.488.0400 Young, who was a close business partner to several German corporations and so often visited Germany. 2) Opposition 7: Conservative and Military Resistance 2: Beck-Goerdeler Group. [85] In a memo written at the end of July 1939 during a visit to Turkey, Goerdeler took the view that Hitler was bluffing in his demands against Poland, and if he could be forced to stand down by a firm Anglo-French stand, that would be such a blow as to topple the Nazi regime. [36], By early 1938, Goerdeler was convinced that "something must be done" about the Nazi regime. [157] In the radio address Goerdeler planned to deliver once the putsch had triumphed was included the statement "The persecution of the Jews, which has been carried out in the most inhuman, deeply shaming and quite irreparable ways, is to cease."[158]. [72] Unknown to Goerdeler, he was transmitting false information provided by the Abwehr chief Admiral Wilhelm Canaris and General Hans Oster, who was hoping that the reports might lead to a change in British foreign policy. [43] During one of his visits to London, in June 1937, Goerdeler told Sir Robert Vansittart that he would like to see the Nazi regime replaced by a right-wing military dictatorship that would seek British friendship, and Goerdeler wanted, in exchange, British support for annexing parts of Poland and Czechoslovakia. In March 1943 before trying again later that year. [3] In the same memo, Goerdeler called for the "1914 frontier" to serve as the basis of Germany's borders both in Western and Eastern Europe, called for Austria and the Sudetenland remaining part of the Reich, and for the annexation of the south Tyrol region of Italy. Economic conditions getting worse.[59]. An ally at Hitlers headquarters cut off all communication as Stauffenberg returned to Berlin to coordinate the implementation of Valkyrie. Ludwig Beck, another important civilian, was a former general who had resigned in opposition to Hitler's aggressive war plans in 1938. [24] During his second term as Price Commissioner in 193435, Goerdeler often came into conflict with the Economics Minister and Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht over his inflationary policies. [126] Those present at the meeting of January 22 were Goerdeler, Hassell, General Beck, Johannes Popitz and Jens Jessens for the conservative faction and von der Schulenburg, Yorck von Wartenburg, Eugen Gerstenmaier, Adam von Trott zu Solz and Helmuth James Graf von Moltke for the left-learning Kreisau Circle. Another major plotter, General Ludwig von Beck, was allowed to commit suicide. [53], Though the British politicians and civil servants who met with Goerdeler were impressed with his honesty and earnestness, it was judged too risky by the Chamberlain government in 1938 to stake all upon the Goerdeler's projected putsch, especially since success was uncertain at best, and discovery of British backing for an unsuccessful putsch was likely to cause the war the Chamberlain government was seeking to avert in 1938.[54]. [147] Not until May could a meeting be arranged to sort out where Rommel stood in regards to the conspiracy. After 1936, Kluge was given command of an army corps. [120] Goerdeler wrote with disgust in May 1943 that the senior officers "think only of helping themselves". He sent a messenger to London to seek military aid from Neville Chamberlain to help prevent Germany invading "[152] Though Dipper noted no one in the Widerstand movement supported the Holocaust, he also claimed that the national-conservatives like Goerdeler did not intend to restore civil rights to the Jews after the overthrow of Hitler.[152]. That's the reason why Beck's conspiracy ultimately failed. [40] The German historian Klaus-Jrgen Mller[de] observed that Goerdeler, in his contacts abroad, tended to falsely portray himself as leading a movement that was more organised than it really was. [18], On 11 April 1935, Goerdeler ordered the end of Haake's boycott and provided a list of "non-Aryan" physicians permitted to operate under the existing laws and those who were excluded. The Beck-Goerdeler group. Das Schattenkabinett Beck/Goerdeler bezeichnet die potentielle Reichsregierung nach einem geglckten Attentat auf Hitler sowie eine Liste weiterer Personen, welche hohe Staatsfunktionen htten bernehmen sollen.. Im Vorlauf des Attentats vom 20.Juli 1944 kam es von verschiedenen Seiten, u. a. vom Kreisauer Kreis, zu Planungen und berlegungen fr ein Deutschland nach Hitler. The primary military conspirators were General Friedrich Olbricht, Major General Henning von Tresckow, and Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, along with Claus-Heinrich Stlpnagel, the military commander in France. What was the plan for the July bomb plot? Even with Soviet economic support (especially oil) and the exploitation of Poland and the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia, the impact of the British blockade caused a 75% decline in value and tonnage of German imports during the Phoney War. [139] Goerdeler wrote that Stauffenberg "revealed himself as a cranky, obstinate fellow who wanted to play politics. Hoffmann quotes memoranda for Hitler from the years 19341939 in which Goerdeler urged the government to change its "Jewish policy" as a matter of justice and national interests; Goerdeler argued that Germany could enjoy good relations with Britain, France and the United States only if the policies concerning "the Jewish Question, the Free-Masons Question, legal security, the Church Question" were changed. Moreover, as one British civil servant wrote on August 22, 1938: We have had similar visits from other emissaries of the Reichsheer, such as Dr. Goerdeler, but those for whom these emissaries claim to speak have never given us any reasons to suppose that they would be able or willing to take action such as would lead to the overthrow of the regime. [27] In his memorandum for Gring, Goerdeler wrote of the "grandiose possibility" that a German reengagement with the world economy and the end of protectionism and autarchism would lead to a new age of economic co-operation among the world's largest economies. When did the Beck-Goerdeler Group first attempt to kill Hitler? [16] Despite his early sympathy for the regime and considerable pressure from the National Socialists, Goerdeler always refused to join the NSDAP. [10] Hindenburg rejected Goerdeler because of his former membership of the DNVP. [103] Halder told Goerdeler that "The military situation of Germany, particularly on account of the pact of non-aggression with the Soviet Union is such that a breach of my oath to the Fhrer could not possibly be justified" [Halder was referring to the Hitler oath], that only if Germany was faced with total defeat would he consider breaking his oath, and that Goerdeler was a fool to believe that the Second World War could be ended with a compromise peace. Despite his strong hostile feelings towards Poland, Goerdeler played a key role during the 1920 PolishSoviet War in breaking a strike by Danzig dockers, who wished to shut down Poland's economy by closing its principal port. [140] Goerdeler was pleased that at long last, the means for a putsch, without the senior officers who were plainly not willing to break with the regime, had been devised by Stauffenberg, but his uneasy relations with Stauffenberg were described by the German historian Hans Mommsen as one of mutual "misunderstandings". Ulrich von Hassell wrote in his diary that Goerdeler was "imprudent" but at least "wants to act rather than grumble", which was a marked difference to the generals who indicated that perhaps they would or perhaps they would not act against the Nazi regime should Czechoslovakia be attacked. [25], Goerdeler warned that to continue the present course of increasing statism in the economy and the current levels of high military spending would result in the total collapse of the economy with an extremely drastic drop in living standards. [124] In a memo Goerdeler sent to the British and American governments in the autumn of 1943, he called for a negotiated peace between the Allies and Germany once the Nazis were overthrown. The motivations of the conspirators and their place in the history of the Third Reich remain an area of intense debate. He was unable to arm the second bomb in time. [169] During his time in prison, Goerdeler was asked by the SS to assist with writing the constitution of a future SS-ruled Germany. [3], After his discharge from the German Army, Goerdeler joined the ultraconservative German National People's Party (DNVP). [3] In June 1919, Goerdeler submitted a memorandum to his superior, General Otto von Below, calling for the destruction of Poland as the only way to prevent territorial losses on Germany's eastern borders. [71] Goerdeler, together with Dr. Schacht, General Beck, Hassell and the economist Rudolf Brinkmann, were described by Hitler as "the overbred intellectual circles" who were trying to block him from fulfilling his mission by their appeals to caution, and but for the fact that he needed their skills "otherwise, perhaps we could someday exterminate them or do something of this kind to them".[71]. [29] Goerdeler argued his policies of economic liberalisation and devaluation would, in the short run, cause 2 million2.5 million unemployed in Germany but argued that, in the long run, the increase in exports would make the German economy stronger.[24]. [18] In the autumn of 1936, Goerdeler left for a trip to Finland promoted by the German Chamber of Commerce. Within a few weeks we could have begun to build lasting world peace on the basis of justice, reason and decency. What was the plan for the July bomb plot? [78] Overy charged that Goerdeler wanted a very firm Anglo-French stand in favour of Poland in the hope that if confronted with such a situation, the German Army would overthrow Hitler, rather than risk a world war, and so Goerdeler exaggerated the economic problems of the Reich to encourage such a stand. 1) Support 1: What Role Did Hitler Play In The Success Of The Nazi Party? Popitz favored a return to the pre-1918 authoritarian political system. [139] The two men took an immediate dislike to each other. As part of the plan, Colonel Stauffenberg would travel to Hitlers headquarters in East Prussia (the Wolfs Lair), where he would place a briefcase containing two bombs under Hitlers briefing table. He opposed some anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust . Re: The Allies' attitude towards a Beck-Goerdeler government at the end of 1943 Post by Juan G. C. 31 Oct 2020, 20:36 Also, according to Zhukov Stalin said in June 8, 1944, that the British and Americans would make peace with "an obedient government", and even in 1945 his paranoia was aroused when he heard about the Dulles-Wolff negotiations. ", and "Oho! The second group was Kreisau Circle with Helmuth James von Moltke. [95] Equally important, on 7 November 1939 following heavy snowstorms, Hitler put off "X-Day" until further notice, which removed the reason that had most motivated Brauchitsch and Halder to consider overthrowing Hitler. Explore a timeline of events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust. [159] In the days preceding the putsch attempt of 20 July 1944, Goerdeler stayed at the home of General Beck in the Berlin suburb of Lichterfelde. Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts. [116], In November 1942, Goerdeler made a secret and illegal visit to Smolensk using forged papers provided by Colonel Hans Oster to meet Field Marshal Gnther von Kluge and Henning von Tresckow to gain their support for overthrowing Hitler. Instead, in the autumn of 1936, the Nazi regime launched the Four Year Plan as a way out of the 1936 economic crisis. In the days that followed, Hitler ordered a massive hunt for conspirators which continued for months. On 26 August, he went to a trip to Sweden that he had been considering cancelling because of the international situation. [23] Despite the great fanfare that greeted Goerdeler's appointment, he was given little real power. They wanted to create a government based on the rule of law, with free speech, religious freedom and social justice. [51] To have more frequent meetings with his British contacts, Goerdeler stayed in Switzerland in AugustOctober 1938. [89] At the same time, Goerdeler's insistence on restoring Germany to its 1914 borders and his intense German nationalism left many British diplomats to mistrust Goerdeler as they regarded him as not much different from Hitler. [95] Brauchitsch and Halder had decided to overthrow Hitler after the latter had fixed "X-day" for the invasion of France for 12 November 1939; an invasion that both officers believed to be doomed to fail. [72] Canaris and Oster achieved their purpose as Goerdeler's disinformation resulted in first the "Dutch War Scare", which gripped the British government in late January 1939 and led to the public declarations by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in February that any German attack upon France, Switzerland and the Low Countries would be automatically considered the casus belli for an Anglo-German war and would lead to the British "continental commitment" to defend France with a large ground force. Hitler stressed that he was interested in long lasting good relations with Poland and expressed the desire to settle the Danzig/corridor issue. [67] Chamberlain was more hostile and wrote, "These people must do their own job". His interest in mobile warfare soon won Hitler . [49] In June 1938, Beck often consulted with Goerdeler over the question of whether or not he should resign as Chief of the General Staff as a way of stopping Fall Grn. In the end more than 7,000 people were arrested, and 4,980 were executed, often on the barest evidence. [34] During the same trip, Goerdeler drafted his "Political Testament", attacking Nazi economic policies and criticized the regime for its anti-Christian policies, widespread corruption and lawlessness. The motivations of the conspirators were likely varied and remain contested to this day. [73] Goerdeler claimed that Hitler would refuse to attend the conference, which would so discredit him as to bring about his downfall. View Matt Beck's business profile as Director, Carbon Management & Sustainability Services at Delphi Group. Stauffenberg solved that problem by devising Operation Valkyrie, a plan that ostensibly was meant to crush a slave labour uprising but really was the cover for a putsch that could be activated by officers of less than senior rank. [106] The sequel was recorded in Hassell's diary on 16 June 1941: "Brauchitsch and Halder have already agreed to Hitler's tactics [in the Soviet Union]. Stlpnagel had closely cooperated with the Einsatzgruppen in their mass murder of Jews when he commanded the 17th Army in the German-occupied Soviet Union. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, for example, had been the mayor of Leipzig from 1930 to 1937, but resigned his position in opposition to Nazi policy. In December 1938, Goerdeler again visited Britain, where he alienated the British civil servants he met by his extreme German nationalist language and demands for British support for the return of Danzig, the Polish Corridor and the former German colonies in Africa, and for making a huge loan to a post-Nazi . From the fall of 1939 through 1941, Beck worked with other anti-Nazi officials such as Goerdeler, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, and Ulrich von Hassell in planning a coup to remove Hitler and make peace with Britain and France. [5], In 1922, Goerdeler was elected as mayor (Brgermeister) of Knigsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) in East Prussia and later, on 22 May 1930, as mayor of Leipzig. These orders concern brutalmeasures the troops are to take against the Bolsheviks when the Soviet Union is invaded.We came to the conclusion that nothing was to be hoped for nowThey [the generals] delude themselvesHopeless sergeant majors! [105] In June 1941, Goerdeler experienced a brief surge of hope that he learned that Hitler had issued a set of orders to the Army for the upcoming Operation Barbarossa that violated international law and made it clear that he wanted the war against the Soviet Union to be waged in the most inhumane, brutal way possible. Analysis of population, emigration, immigration and naturalization statistics shows that Goerdeler's proposal guaranteed German citizenship to at least 94% of German Jews and sustain the legal fiction of "exceptions". Goerdeler was not physically tortured by the Gestapo, and freely co-operated with the Gestapo in naming names, which made him the object of a considerable hatred from the other prisoners, who saw him as a "spineless rat."[168]. [18] However, the laws did not affect those physicians who received their approbation under the Weimar Republic. [27] To secure their co-operation, Goerdeler argued for rapprochement with the Western powers. Friedrich Adam von Trott zu Solz (9 August 1909 - 26 August 1944) was a German lawyer and diplomat who was involved in the conservative resistance to Nazism. On 8th January, 1943, a group of conspirators, including, Ulrich von Hassell, Helmuth von Moltke, Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, Johannes Popitz, Eugen Gerstenmaier, Adam von Trott, Ludwig Beck and Carl Goerdeler met at the home of Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg. Jan 2020 - May 20211 year 5 months. [13] On 1 April 1933, the day of the national boycott declared against all Jewish businesses in the Reich, Goerdeler appeared in full uniform of the Oberbrgermeister of Leipzig to order the SA not to enforce the boycott and ordered the Leipzig police to free several Jews taken hostage by the SA. as a hard-working and outstanding municipal politician. [60] The British historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, who knew Goerdeler well, noted that Goerdeler failed to realize that Hitler was not bluffing with Fall Grn and had every intention of attacking Czechoslovakia on October 1, 1938, and that he regarded Munich as a personal set-back. They were once bright grey eyes and had flashed beneath the heavy eyebrows; that had always been the most impressive thing about him. [132] The British historian Ian Kershaw commented that Goerdeler's plans to talk Hitler into resigning reflected a certain lack of realism on his part. He sent a messenger to London to seek military aid from Neville Chamberlain to help prevent Germany invading Czechoslovakia. [34], Shortly after his resignation, Goerdeler became involved in anti-Nazi plots. [37] Describing Goerdeler during this period, the American journalist William L. Shirer wrote that Goerdeler was "A conservative and a monarchist at heart, a devout Protestant, able, energetic and intelligent, but also indiscreet and headstrong" who "went to work with heart and soul in opposition to Hitler". [153] In a recent article, Orbach also argued that Dipper's accusations of anti-Semitism are based on a misreading, if not distortion, of Goerdeler's memoranda, thus ignoring Goerdeler's plan to restore emancipation to the German Jews and securing a national homeland for their Polish brethren. In May 1944, Goerdeler revived his idea of 1943 of talking Hitler into resigning as a way of achieving a peaceful end to Nazi Germany. [100] The basis of all their planning was the restoration of the monarchy. [160] On 17 July 1944, a warrant for Goerdeler's arrest was issued, causing him to go into hiding. [34] Goerdeler instead became the director of the overseas sales department at the firm of Robert Bosch GmbH. [23], In 1934, Goerdeler was strongly opposed to the idea of devaluing the Reichsmark and had supported Hitler and Schacht against the advocates of devaluation. [134], In August 1943, Goerdeler and his friend, the Oberbrgermeister of Stuttgart, the disillusioned SA-Brigadefhrer Karl Strlin sent a joint memo to the Reich Interior Minister, the Reichsfhrer SS Heinrich Himmler complaining about the anti-Semitic and anti-Christian policies of the Nazi regime, asking for the end of the "emergency" laws that had suspended civil rights in Germany since 1933, and called for the end of the NSDAP influence on the judiciary. Netflix. [34] However, Hitler forbade Goerdeler to take up this appointment and ordered Krupp to withdraw the offer. What was their most important aim in foreign policy? Besides trying to influence opinion abroad, Goerdeler urged the German military to overthrow Hitler and frequently found himself frustrated by the unwillingness of the generals to consider a putsch. [12] By 1934 he clashed with Hitler over his foreign policy, as Germany signed a nonaggression treaty with Poland to which Goerdeler was opposed and demanded annexation of Polish territories. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (German: [kal fid dl] (listen); 31 July 1884 2 February 1945) was a monarchist conservative German politician, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime. [119] By May 1943, Goerdeler was well aware that Field Marshal Gnther von Kluge, General Heinz Guderian and Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt had accepted 250,000 Reichsmark cheques as birthday presents from Hitler that were intended to bribe them into loyalty, and that in addition, Guderian had received an estate in Poland.<. [103] Halder refused Goerdeler's request. [79], On 6 May 1939, Goerdeler leaked information to the British Foreign Office stating that the German and Soviet governments were secretly beginning a rapprochement, with the aim of dividing Eastern Europe between them. A purified Germany with a government of decent people would have been ready to solve the Spanish problem without delay in company with Britain and France, to remove Mussolini and with the United States to create peace in the Far East. Now there was no light in them; they were like the eyes of a blind man, yet like nothing I had seen before. In public, Gring called Goerdeler's memorandum "completely unusable. [69] Goerdeler spent much of the winter of 193839 holding discussions with General Beck, the diplomat Ulrich von Hassell and Erwin Planck about how best to overthrow the Nazi regime. From 1937 onwards, what did Goerdeler become? Dismayed, Beck resigned as chief of army general staff in 1938, but shortly after that emerged as a leading oppositionist. Who was the leading conservative and military resistance group led by? [138] As Goerdeler gloomily noted, Kluge's successor, Field Marshal Ernst Busch, was a convinced National Socialist who was clearly not "verschwrungsfhig" (plot-worthy). After his schooling at the Military Academy, Kluge served on the General Staff from 1910 to 1918. [132] After a visit to western Germany, where Goerdeler was horrified by the damage caused by AngloAmerican bombing, Goerdeler, in July 1943 wrote a letter to Field Marshal Gnther von Kluge criticising him for his continued support of a regime that was leading the nation into ruin. [66] Sir Alexander Cadogan wrote about Goerdeler's offer, "We are to deliver the goods and Germany gives I.O.Us". Roosevelt. [143], In late February 1944, Goerdeler sent Strlin to meet Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to see if he would like to join the anti-Nazi conspiracy and was delighted when Strlin gave him a positive report about Rommel's attitude towards the conspiracy. 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