Blueprints
no title (Memorandum on the German Resistance)
This blueprint belongs to the most famous war-time documents to have been created by German resistance circles. The members of the Kreisau Circle outlined a strategy to overthrow the Hitler regime and subsequently negotiate a peace with the Allies and rebuild Germany. Von Trott wanted to use this document to convince the British to aid the Kreisauers in that endeavour. Through Visser ‘t Hooft‘s network, the blueprint was transferred to Sir Stafford Cripps in London, but it remains unclear to this day whether he forwarded the message in turn to Winston Churchill. Whatever the case, the reply from Great Britain came back negative, to the great dismay of Von Trott and other German anti-Nazi groups.
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The blueprint is courtesy of the WCC Archives in Geneva and republished here with permission.