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Ulrich von Hassell must be considered as one of the ‘great failures in history’. The phrase comes from the man himself. It can be found in an essay written at easter 1939, on the fate of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, one of the figures who most interested him during the last years of his life.1 In many ways, Hassell too had failed. That ‘state of the future’, toward which he had worked as a young conservative, as a diplomat and as an opponent of Hitler, remained a vision.
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Ulrich von Hassell, Pyrrhus (Munich, 1947), quotation p. 76. See also Ulrich von Hassell, ‘Pyrrhus. Ein Vorspiel der Mittelmeerpolitik’, in Weisse Blätter, May/June, 1940, pp. 81 ff., and in Deutsche Zukunft, 14 and 21 January 1941.
Eberhard Zeller, Geist der Freiheit. Der zwangzigste Juli (Munich, undated [1952]), p. 39.
Hermann Mau and Helmut Krausnick, Deutsche Geschichte der jüngsten Vergangenheit 1933–1945 (Bonn, undated [1953]), p. 179.
Theodore Draper, ‘An Old-Line German Monarchist in Hitler’s Reich’, in: New York Times Magazine, 12 October 1947.
Karl Otmar von Aretin, ‘Der deutsche Widerstand gegen Hitler’, in U. Catarius (ed.), Opposition gegen Hitler (Berlin, 1984), pp. 5 ff., quotation p. 20.
Manfred Messerschmitt, ‘Motivationen der nationalkonservativen Opposition und des militärischen Widerstands seit dem Frankreich-Feldzug’, in K.-J. Müller (ed.), Der deutsche Widerstand 1933–1945 (Paderborn et al. 1986), pp. 60 ff., quotation p. 61.
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Schöllgen, G. (1991). Conclusion. In: A Conservative Against Hitler. St Antony's. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21757-1_11
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