Hans von dohnanyi biography of abraham

Primary Sources

(1) Joachim Fest, Plotting Hitler's Death (1997)

Around September 20, the innermost circle of conspirators met in Oster's apartment for a final conclave: Witzleben, Gisevius, Dohnanyi, and probably Goerdeler, as well as Captain Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz and Lieutenant Commander Franz Maria Liedig.

Heinz and Liedig had recently been asked to assemble a special task force, whose precise mission the assembled group now determined. When Halder issued the signal for the coup, the task force, under Witzleben's command, was to overpower the sentries at the main entrance to the Reich Chancellery at 78 Wilhelmstrasse, enter the building, neutralize any resistance, especially from Hitler's bodyguards, and enter Hitler's quarters.

(2) Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern, New York Review of Books (25th October, 2012)

In 1929 Dohnanyi entered the Reich Ministry of Justice as an aide to State Secretary Curt Jöel, a strict conserva