A veteran of Israeli intelligence, Dr. DANNY ORBACH earned a B.A. in history and East Asian studies from Tel Aviv University, and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow in the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, and a senior lecturer for history and East Asian studies in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a historian, commentator, and political blogger, he has published extensively on German, Japanese, Chinese, Israeli, and Middle Eastern history, with a special focus on military resistance, disobedience, rebellions, and political assassinations. His latest book, The Plots Against Hitler, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Eamon Dolan Books. During the 2015 2016 academic years, he plans to complete a book manuscript on his dissertation and will begin his new research project on the Nanjing Massacre.
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In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance seemed complete. Yet over the next few years, an unlikely clutch of conspirators e... SEE MORE