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Worm in the Apple
German Traitors and Other Influences
That Pushed the World Into War:

The little-known story of the men who destroyed Adolf Hitler's Germany
Original edition: F. Lenz, self-published, 1952.
Translated by Victor Diodon. Translation © 1997-2022 by The Scriptorium.
All illustrations were added by The Scriptorium.


Dedicated to all
who were or are unconditionally willing to give their life for Germany.


Friedrich Lenz

1.  Preface
2.  Overview
3.  The three main groups of Hitler's opponents
4. 

Major camps of the opposition, their plans for a coup, and measures taken

5.  Germany's desire for a just peace
6. 

Munich, the Protectorate, and the British guarantee to Poland

7. 

Allied stalling maneuvers and incitement instead of a desire for peace

8. 

Ten leading personalities comment on the question of war guilt (Part 1)

9. 

Ten leading personalities comment on the question of war guilt (Part 2)

10.  The ace up England's sleeve - Hitler's miscalculation
11. 

The importance of the Resistance from the English perspective

12. 

Assassination attempt of July 20, 1944: a shot in their own - and in Germany's foot

13.  The morale of the people and the soldiers
14. 

Views on the assassination attempt and the would-be assassins

15.  A few words to General Halder
16.  The role of Admiral Canaris
17.  The brothers Erich and Theodor Kordt
18.  Hitler's striving for peace
19.  Verdicts of the victors and the German justice system
20.  Summary and Conclusion

A note to our readers: this work, originally published in German in 1952, is a polemic written for the people, not a scholarly study for research purposes; in the interests of readability the author attempted quite deliberately to keep footnoting and other scholarly conventions to a minimum. As a result, however, there are a good number of quotations whose source is not clearly stated. From the perspective of documentation this is unfortunate. We shall attempt to fill in some of the gaps in the documentation; in the meantime, Lenz's arguments stand quite well on their own merits.
Edit: for readers who are conversant in French: this French translation of Lenz's booklet contains many of the additional sources!


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Worm in the Apple
German Traitors and Other Influences That Pushed the World Into War:
The little-known story of the men who destroyed Adolf Hitler's Germany


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