Hellmut G. Haasis

A good solid account of Georg Elser, a blue col­lar worker who planted a bomb in a beer hall in 1939 narrowly miss­ing killing Hitler who had to leave early for Berlin.

There are many inter­views from first hand sources as well as his­tor­i­cal doc­u­men­ta­tion detailing his previous life and the brutal interrogation by the Gestapo and Himmler himself.

Elser is dispatched to Sachsenhausen and then Dachau where he is tragically executed in the last days of the war

I hadn't realised show more how Elser's reputation had been sullied, surprisingly by Pastor Niemoller who accused Elser of being an SS agent due to his preferential treatment in Dachau.

How­ever with his detailed research and doc­u­men­ta­tion, the author shows a man who stood up for his principles and almost changed the whole course of history single-handedly. show less