Compare And Contrast Beck And Goerdeler

The two people in this week’s article are very much connected to each other, as they were both a part of the coup d’état on July 20, 1944. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and Ludwig Beck played very important roles in the Resistance because of their prominent positions. Goerdeler was a Mayor of Leipzig in the Third Reich, and Beck was a Colonel General in the Army Chief of Staff. The two worked together for the same cause, but each had their viewpoints on the war. The rearmament of Germany was a surprising detail that the League of Nations overlooked in their appeasement towards Germany. Colonel General Ludwig Beck was not against rearmament, but he was against action that eventually led to war. Hitler had in mind to conquer Czechoslovakia through