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Lesley Yarranton on Saving Munich 1945

The author of the story of the uprising in Hitler's favourite city discusses Rupprecht Gerngross.

Lesley Yarranton

Lesley Yarranton, many congratulations on a fascinating story in Saving Munich 1945. What sort of man was Rupprecht Gerngross? American historian John Toland described him as “scholarly, cultured and good-natured – a most unlikely combination for a revolutionist”....

Saving Munich: The Story of Rupprecht Gerngross

The final plot against Hitler was led by a figure forgotten about today.

Lesley Yarranton

It is more than thirty years since I first heard of a small group of German army officers rising up against Hitler in the dying days of the Nazi regime. I was a foreign correspondent sent to Berlin within days of the Wall being torn down, and had been tracking the...