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The Man Who Stood Up to Hitler
While the world remembers the industrial scale of the Holocaust and the brutal mechanics of the Nazi regime, there is a singular moment in August 1933 where one man dared to speak truth to absolute power. This episode explores the life and final stand of Ludwig Beck, the Chief of the General Staff who resigned rather than support Adolf Hitler’s illegal rearmament. We trace Beck’s journey from a quiet staff officer in World War I to the reluctant architect of several failed assassination plots against the Führer. Alongside figures like Carl Goerdeler and Hans Oster, Beck represents the moral…
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