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[3], After his resignation as Oberbrgermeister of Leipzig, Goerdeler was offered the position of heading the finance department at the firm of Krupp AG, then Germany's largest corporation. In 1941, he proposed for the League of Nations to found a Jewish state that would extend Jewish citizenship to all Jews in the world. [117] Goerdeler returned to Berlin feeling assured about the future, and was most disappointed when he received a message from Kluge via General Beck stating he changed his mind about acting against the Nazi regime, and to include him out of any putsch. [98] On 23 November 1939, Goerdeler met with Halder to ask him to re-consider his attitude. In the same letter, Goerdeler wrote "You can hardly conceive the despair that both people and the Army feel about the brutal, insane and terroristic dictator and his henchmen". [150][151] The German historian Christof Dipper in his 1983 essay "Der Deutsche Widerstand und die Juden" (translated into English as "The German Resistance and the Jews") argued that the majority of the anti-Nazi national-conservatives such as Goerdeler were anti-Semitic. [94] Hedin wrote in his diary that "he [Goerdeler] believed in Gring and thought that a speedy peace was the only thing to save Germany, but that peace was unthinkable so long as Hitler remained at the head of affairs". [34] Goerdeler instead became the director of the overseas sales department at the firm of Robert Bosch GmbH. Within a few weeks we could have begun to build lasting world peace on the basis of justice, reason and decency. [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. [6] As a conservative and self-proclaimed follower of the Bismarckian tradition, Goerdeler was opposed to what he considered the extreme radicalism of the Nazis and was fearful of what the results of Hitler's foreign policy might be. jul 20, 1944 - Operation Valkyrie Description:-most famous plot to assassinate Hitler (6 in 1943)-plot by military leaders (many involved, military-conservative resistance): Beck-Goerdeler group, Kreisau Circle, contact with USA + Britain-reasons: necessity to remove Hitler --> rapid peace + avoid invasion by Red Army (not about morality of Nazi regime), & moral rehabilitation-USA + Britain . [25] In his report, Goerdeler wrote that the foremost goal of German economic policy should be "the satisfactory provisioning of the population with fats, even in relation to armaments, as having political priority". March and november 1943. [7] The sternness with which Goerdeler administered his task as Price Commissioner made him a well-known figure in Germany. (Wolfgang Kapp, the nominal leader of the Kapp Putsch was notorious for his irresponsibility). [103] Halder refused Goerdeler's request. 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]. [139] Stauffenberg for his part, saw Goerdeler as the leader of "the revolution of the greybeards". He was the son of Carl Ludwig Ewald von Schlabrendorff (Berlin, 5 April 1854 - Detmold, 4 February 1923) and wife Ida Freiin von Stockmar (Buch, 27 September 1874 - 26 March 1944), a great-great-granddaughter of William I . Goerdeler meant that if General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord had carried out a putsch in 1933, the present state of world troubles in 1944 might have been avoided. A peace of compromise was senseless. He wrote to Hitler that continued Polish possession of territories in Gdask Pomerania and Greater Poland was "thorn in country's economic flesh and honour" and that "the German people must fight for security of their existence". Inner situation desperate. [99], In JanuaryFebruary 1940, Goerdeler together with Popitz, Beck and Hassell spent most of their time working on the sort of constitutional, economic, social and educational system that a post-Nazi government would have to carry out. [169] Goerdeler's hope in confessing all was to overload the Gestapo with information, and thereby buy time to save his life and the others imprisoned; in the process, he caused hundreds involved in the plot to be arrested. [51] In April 1942, during another visit to Sweden, Goerdeler contacted the Wallenberg family and asked it to contact Winston Churchill about the peace terms that the British would conclude with Germany once the Nazi regime was overthrown. [102] In early April 1940, Goerdeler met secretly with General Franz Halder, the Chief of the General Staff, and asked him to consider a putsch while the Phoney War was still on, while the British and French were still open to a negotiated peace. 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. Some, like Goerdeler, objected to Nazi anti-Jewish policy as well as the general mismanagement of the war leading Germany to ruin. [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]. The July Bomb Plot (1944) Who carried the bomb during the July Bomb Plot? [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. 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. Rommels name arose in interrogations but it was likely he was not directly involved. TTY: 202.488.0406, The Nazi Persecution of Black People in Germany, The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936: African American Voices and "Jim Crow" America. [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]. Dismayed, Beck resigned as chief of army general staff in 1938, but shortly after that emerged as a leading oppositionist. Carl Goerdeler, the son of a Prussian district judge, was born in Schneidemuell on 31st July 1884. [144] Goerdeler decided that Rommel would be the ideal person to play a leading role in a post-Hitler government and asked Strlin to find out if Rommel would be willing to play that role. Who was the second key figure in the conservative resistance against Hitler? ", and "Oho! 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. Hitler stressed that he was interested in long lasting good relations with Poland and expressed the desire to settle the Danzig/corridor issue. Colonel von Stauffenberg. [97] After that meeting, both Halder and Brauchitsch told Goerdeler that overthrowing Hitler was simply something that they could not do, and he should find other officers if that was what he really wanted to do. [103] Halder ended his meeting with Goerdeler on 6 April 1940 with the remark: Britain and France had declared war on us, and one had to see it through. [170] Goerdeler agreed, and often met with Otto Ohlendorf and Dr. Mding of the SD to provide his advice. It was a man grown old who stood before me, shackled hand and foot, in the same light summer clothes as had on when captured, shabby and collarless, face thin and drawn, strangely different. The Reserve Army would seize key installations in Berlin and arrest high-ranking Nazi officials, including Goebbels, while disarming loyal SS units. 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. Beck was Chief of General Staff and Goerdeler was Commissioner, having remained in office after the government of Heinrich Bruning. By 1 94 1 the Beck-Goerdeler group had begun to organize a network of military and conservative nationalist supporters with the intention of ending the Hitler state. Almost all of the conspirators had a conservative, nationalist perspective and an aristocratic background. [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. Finally, "one does not rebel when face to face with the enemy". [15] A few days after the boycott, Goerdeler found himself as mayor of Leipzig enforcing the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, which, unlike the Nuremberg Laws, of 1935 did not give him cause for complaint. The bomb exploded, killing 4 people, and Hitler survived with minor injuries. [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. Although linked together in loose groupings -- for example, the Beck-Goerdeler group and the Kreisau Circle -- that were in turn linked to one another through personal contacts and occasional . When were the other two attempts made by the Beck-Goerdeler group? [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. [9], After the downfall of the Brning government in 1932, Goerdeler was considered as a potential Chancellor. From 1937 onwards, what did Goerdeler become? [129], During the spring of 1943, Goerdeler grew increasing impatient with the military end of the conspiracy, complaining that those officers involved in the plot were better at finding excuses for inaction than reasons for action, a sentiment he expressed in a 1943 letter to General Friedrich Olbricht[130][131], Goerdeler had great faith in his idea that if only he could meet with Hitler and explain to him that his leadership was grossly inadequate on military and economic grounds, then Hitler could be persuaded to resign in his favor, thereby ending Nazi Germany through non-violent means. What happened to the Kreisau Circle in 1943? There were other conservative groups who discussed the political order that should be established after Hitlers downfall, name one. [170] When confronted with the loneliness of his imprisonment and the utter defeat of his cause, Goerdeler, who had always been a highly devout Lutheran, became increasingly preoccupied with spiritual matters. Since Germans according to the German citizenship law of 1913 lost their German citizenship by acquiring another citizenship, Goerdeler declared that for German Jews there must be four categories of "exceptions" to this rule. Goerdeler was executed by hanging on 2 February 1945. In 1938, Goerdeler was deeply disappointed with the Munich Agreement, which in his view, though it turned over the Sudetenland to Germany, was undesirable in that it removed what Goerdeler considered to be best chance of a putsch against the Nazi regime. [129] Finally, the European confederation was to serve as the nucleus of a "World Confederation of Nations" that would banish war everywhere, and promote peace and prosperity. [29], To that end, Goerdeler argued in exchange for Anglo-French-American economic co-operation and support, Germany should at least cease its unilateral economic policies and sharply cut military spending. And in this conection I want to draw the attention of the forum to this 1999 article, which I think is very . 1) Support 3: Reasons For The Popularity And The Appeal Of The Nazi Party In 1933, 1) Support 4: The Nature And Size Of Nazi Support, 1) Support 8: Regional Basis Of The Nazi Vote, 1) Support 9: The Size And Membership And Who Joined, 1) Support 10: The Nature And Size Of The Disillusionment With The Party During The Second World War, 2) Opposition 2: Political Opposition 1: Social Democrats, 2) Opposition 3: Communists (Uhrig Group), 2) Opposition 3: Communists (The Red Orchestra), 2) Opposition 3: Communists (The Last Months), 2) Opposition 4: Cultural/Social Opposition, 2) Opposition 4: Cultural/Social Opposition (Edelweiss Pirates), 2) Opposition 4: Cultural/Social Opposition (Swing And Jazz Youth), 2) Opposition 4: Cultural/Social Oppositon: Conclusions, 2) Opposition 5: Moral Opposition: The White Rose (Hans Scholl), 2) Opposition 5: Moral Opposition: The White Rose (Sophie Scholl), 2) Opposition 5: Moral Opposition: The White Rose (Activities), 2) Opposition 6: Religious Opposition 1: Protestants, 2) Opposition 6: Religious Opposition 2: Catholics, 2) Opposition 7: Conservative And Military Resistance, 2) Opposition 7: Conservative And Military Resistance 2: Beck Goerdeler Group, 2) Opposition 8: The 20th July 1944 Bomb Plot. [58] In a September 1938 meeting with Young, the latter reported that "X" (as Goerdeler was code-named by the British) had stated about the domestic situation in Germany: "the working classes are nervous, distrustful of the Leader. If the warning had been heeded and acted upon Germany would by now be free of its dictator and turning against Mussolini. His [Goerdeler's] recent talks with leading industrialists had satisfied X that the workers' feeling have been bitterly roused to the point where, if they were in possession of arms, they would physically revolt against the present regime.[59]. [51] The German historian Hans Mommsen wrote that Goerdeler's anti-Semitism was typical of the German right in which Jews were widely considered to be part of an alien body living in Germany. [91] Goerdeler was most disappointed and unpleasantly surprised when Germany attacked Poland on 1 September, the Anglo-French declarations of war on 3 September and then the German Army doing nothing to overthrow Hitler. The opposition to those crimes was common to all the members of the Beck-Goerdeler group (see, for example, the Hassell diaries). [120] Goerdeler wrote with disgust in May 1943 that the senior officers "think only of helping themselves". [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. Goerdeler's reports to Young were later published by the latter in 1974 as The "X" Documents. [18] However, the laws did not affect those physicians who received their approbation under the Weimar Republic. He became the leading civilian figure in the conservative-military resistance against the Nazis. On yesterday's episode of Beck's solo program on the . [58] Like most German conservatives, Goerdeler favoured Germany's traditional informal alliance with China, and was strongly opposed to the volte-face in Germany's Far Eastern policies effected in early 1938 by the Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, who abandoned the alliance with China for an alignment with Japan. At the same time, Goerdeler became a member of General Ludwig Beck's private intelligence network. [18], On 9 April 1935, the Deputy Mayor of Leipzig, the National Socialist Rudolf Haake, in defiance of the existing laws, banned all Jewish doctors from participating in public health insurance and advised all municipal employees not to consult Jewish doctors. Goerdeler, an unyielding optimist, believed that if only he could convince enough people, he could overthrow the Nazi regime. [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. [10] As a result, by 1932, no current or even former member of the DNVP was acceptable to Hindenburg as chancellor. [11] In Goerdeler's opinion, they posed a grave danger to the German economy, and finally prompted his resignation in 1935 as Price Commissioner. 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. In 1946, she was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 15 years in prison, which was reduced to 6 years on appeal. 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. The motivations of the conspirators and their place in the history of the Third Reich remain an area of intense debate. [34][39] Though opposed to what he considered to be a reckless foreign policy, Goerdeler often demanded in his meetings with his foreign friends for the Great Powers to back the cession of the Sudetenland, the Polish Corridor, the Memelland (modern Klaipda, Lithuania), and the Free City of Danzig and the return of the former German colonies in Africa, to Germany. [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. Before the war, Goerdeler had implored the British government to pressure Hitler to alleviate his "Jewish policy". [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. [105] Goerdeler thus intended to protect, if possible, all German Jews against the loss of their German citizenship; the few who did not fall into one of Goerdeler's categories of "exceptions" could have applied, under the 1913 German citizenship law, for re-instatement. [36], By early 1938, Goerdeler was convinced that "something must be done" about the Nazi regime. [102] The only Nazi leader besides Hitler whom Goerdeler and his circle were adamant could play no role in a post-Nazi government was the Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop who Goerdeler personally hated as an obnoxious bully, and whose foreign policy Goerdeler viewed as criminally inept. [51] Speaking to Young about the economic situation in Germany, Goerdeler stated: Economic and financial situation gravely critical. On 26 August, he went to a trip to Sweden that he had been considering cancelling because of the international situation. [48] In the spring of 1938, Goerdeler, in association with Hans von Dohnanyi, Colonel Hans Oster and Johannes Popitz, became involved in planning a putsch against the Nazi regime should the regime launch Fall Grn, the codename for the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Their allegiance is doubtful. [74], In the second half of March 1939, Goerdeler together with Schacht and Hans Bernd Gisevius visited Ouchy, Switzerland, to meet with a senior French Deuxime Bureau intelligence agent representing French Prime Minister douard Daladier[75] Goerdeler told the agent that the strain of massive military spending had left the German economy on the verge of collapse; that Hitler was determined to use the Danzig issue as an excuse to invade Poland, which in itself was only a prelude for a German seizure of all of Eastern Europe; that a forceful Anglo-French diplomatic stand could deter Hitler; and that if Hitler were deterred long enough, the economic collapse of Germany would cause the downfall of his regime. Other areas of law include municipal, administrative, corporate/commercial and real estate. [84] Goerdeler's assessment of the German diplomatic-military-economic situation had considerable influence on decision-makers in the British and French governments in 1939, who, based on his reports, believed that a firm Anglo-French diplomatic stand for Poland might bring about the fall of Hitler without a war or, at least, would ensure that the Allies faced war on relatively auspicious economic terms.[81]. Chief of the army general staff from 1935 to 1939. [139] The two men took an immediate dislike to each other. 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! In August 1939, Goerdeler contacted General Walter von Brauchitsch and advised him if Germany attacked Poland, the result would not be the limited war that Hitler expected but a world war pitting Germany against Britain and France. [34] However, Hitler forbade Goerdeler to take up this appointment and ordered Krupp to withdraw the offer. Arthur Nebe was leader of the Kripo (Criminal Police) and had commanded Einsatzgruppe B in the Soviet Union, responsible for the murder of over 45,000 Jews. The Quartermaster of the Army, Eduard Wagner, who supplied the escape aircraft, had coordinated Einsatzgruppen cooperation with the army and created the plans to starve Soviet prisoners of war (POWs), resulting in millions of deaths. The assassination group consisted of 3 key members: General Ludwig Beck. [137] After five years of trying, the only senior officers Goerdeler had recruited were Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben, whom Hitler had forced into retirement in early 1942 and General Ludwig Beck who had resigned in 1938. Dr Carl Goerdeler, an anti-Nazi politician. [34], Shortly after his resignation, Goerdeler became involved in anti-Nazi plots. [1] Goerdeler's biographer and friend Gerhard Ritter described his upbringing as one of a large, loving middle-class family that was cultured, devoutly Lutheran, nationalist and conservative. [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. [27] Goerdeler argued that for devaluation of the Reichsmark to be successful would require co-ordination with other nations, especially the United States, the United Kingdom and France, which otherwise might be tempted to engage in competitive devaluations of the dollar, the pound and the franc respectively. 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. [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. 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. [14] Goerdeler also informed Young of his belief that Hitler was seeking world conquest, and that the Fhrer had "decided to destroy the Jews-Christianity-Capitalism". 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. He came of conservative Prussian stock with a strong sense of duty and service to the State; his father had been a district judge. [120] Since these were all men that Goerdeler had hopes of recruiting, their refusal to join the conspiracy because of their greed for more bribes enraged Goerdeler. The first was the Beck- Goerdeler Group, named after Carl Goerdeler and Ludwig Beck. The Israeli historian Danny Orbach in his 2010 book Valkyrie: Hahitnagdut Hagermanit Lehitler (Valkyrie: Germans Against Hitler) defended Goerdeler against the charge that he was an anti-Semite by noting Goerdeler's strong support for Zionism and his work with Chaim Weizmann in encouraging German Jews to move to the British Mandate for Palestine. What did they know was the best way to get to Hitler? Through the army, and so made strenuous efforts to win support among Hitlers military commanders. [11], As late as 1935, Goerdeler considered Adolf Hitler an "enlightened dictator", who, with the proper advice, would be a force for good. [33] Goerdeler tried to have the statue rebuilt. During the winter of 193839, Goerdeler sent reports to the British that stated that Hitler was pressuring Italy into attacking France, planning to launch a surprise air offensive against Britain to achieve a "knock-out blow" by razing British cities to the ground sometime in the second half of February 1939, and considering an invasion of Switzerland and the Low Countries before an attack on France and Britain. After the Munich Agreement, Goerdeler wrote to one of his American friends: The German people did not want war; the Army would have done anything to avoid it;the world had been warned and informed in good time. [94] The proposed putsch became stillborn when Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch and General Franz Halder, the leaders of the planned putsch got cold feet, and dropped their support. This showed that the group they represented intended to overthrow the existing rulers, who were to be replaced by anti-Nazi members of the army and administration, former trade union leaders and churchmen. [140], Unlike the Kreisau Circle, Goerdeler was a strong champion of laissez-faire capitalism, and was very much opposed to what he saw as the socialism of the Kreisau Circle. Beck was Chief of General Staff and Goerdeler was Commissioner, having remained in office after the government of Heinrich Bruning. [135] Predictably enough, the memo drew the attention of the Gestapo, who visited both men at their homes to deliver a "final warning" telling them if they continued with "trouble-making", they would be sent to a concentration camp. [42], Besides trying to influence foreign governments, Goerdeler attempted to use his reports to the Army leadership to try to influence the Army into considering an anti-Nazi putsch. [106] Goerdeler argued that the Army would now overthrow Hitler because no self-respecting German officer would wage war in such an inhumane fashion and become a war criminal. [27] To secure their co-operation, Goerdeler argued for rapprochement with the Western powers. Main telephone: 202.488.0400 [21] Gestapo reports from 1934 record that the German public greeted the news of Goerdeler's reappointment as Price Commissioner as a positive development. 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. Goerdeler argued that the tolerance of other Western nations, especially the United States for the German state's subsidising the dumping of exports was wearing thin and would soon result in harsh new tariffs being applied against German goods. [129] The "European confederation" was to be one economic unit with one military ruled over by a Council consisting of two representatives from every state, who would elect a European President for a four-year term. [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. Young, who was a close business partner to several German corporations and so often visited Germany. [87] Goerdeler was convinced that the postponement was a fatal blow to Hitler's prestige. This group was behind the July 1944 bomb plot on Hitlers life. He felt that the demands contained in Clause 8, calling for the disarmament of Germany, would make both the task of recruiting the German Army to overthrowing the regime more difficult and were unacceptable since Goerdeler believed in maintaining a strong military". [29] In addition, Goerdeler felt that the price of Western economic support would be a moderation of the Nazi regime's policies in regards to the "Jewish question, freemasonry question, question of the rule of law, Church question". 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. [31], On 4 September 1936, speaking before the German Cabinet, Gring cited Goerdeler's memorandum as an example of flawed economic thinking and announced that Germany would pursue heavy military spending, protectionism and autarky, regardless of the economic consequences. In the days that followed, Hitler ordered a massive hunt for conspirators which continued for months. On 16 March 1939, Goerdeler suggested to Young that Britain call an international conference to discuss "legitimate" German demands for changes in the international order. 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