Opposing Hitler: Adam von Trott zu Solz, 1909-1944: 'To Strive and Not to Yield'

Adam von Trott zu Solz was a boy when Germany was defeated militarily in 1918 and, in his youth, he witnessed Germany's economic collapse. He was studying at Oxford University when Hitler came to power in 1933. As the economy improved, Hitler enjoyed enormous support. After 1939, the German armies ravaged at will through Western Europe, and von Trott was convinced that the necessary opposition to the Nazis must come from within Germany and not from outside its borders. As a senior official in th…