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Adam von Trott zu Solz with his wife Clarita (1944) .See his role during WWII Germany
(in wikipedia* and also for Shiela Grant Duff who actively opposed the initial UK goverments1930s appeasement policy ). See photo credit L hand corner.

*Adam von Trott zu Solz (August 9, 1909 – August 26, 1944) was a German lawyer and diplomat who opposed the Nazi regime.German resistance groups were called collectively the 'Widerstand'.

Born in Potsdam, Germany, he was the fifth child of Emilie Eleonore (nee von Schweinitz) and leading Prussian civil servant August von Trott zu Solz. Adam von Trott went to the UK in 1931 on a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Balliol College, Oxford where he became close friends with David Astor. Following his studies at Oxford, Trott went on to spend six months in the United States.In 1937 Trott was posted to China.

He took advantage of his travels to try to raise support outside Germany for the internal resistance against the Nazis. In 1939, he lobbied Lord Lothian and Lord Halifax to pressure the British government to abandon its policy of 'appeasement' towards Adolf Hitler, visiting London three times. He also visited Washington, D.C., in October of that year in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain American support.

Friends warned von Trott not to return to Germany but his conviction that he had to do something to stop the madness of Hitler and his henchmen led him to return. Once there, in 1940 Trott joined or infiltrated the Nazi Party in order to access party information and monitor its planning. At the same time, he served as a foreign policy advisor to the clandestine group of intellectuals planning the overthrow of the Nazi regime known as the Kreisau Circle. However, during the war, Trott helped Indian leader Subhas Chandra Bose in setting up the Special Bureau for India. Bose had escaped to Germany at the onset of the war, and later raised the Indische Legion in the country.

Trott was part of Claus von Stauffenberg's unsuccessful plot of July 20 1944 to assassinate Hitler. He was arrested within days, placed on trial and found guilty. Sentenced to death on 15 August 1944 by the Volksgerichtshof, he was hanged in Berlin's Plotzensee Prison on August 26.

Trott is one of five Germans who are commemorated on Balliol College's World War II memorial stone.The 'Trott' surname apparently exists both in England (as variants from at least the 1540s) and in Prussian/German variants.

Adam von Trott was the author of: Hegels Staatsphilosophie und das internationale Recht; Diss. Gottingen (V&R), 1932 .

In contrast: On Martin Niemoller's (Jan 14, 1892 – Mar 6, 1984) famous quotation:
"First they came for the Communists" .
What did Niemoeller really say? Which groups did he name? In what order? Asks Harold Marcuse, UC Santa Barbara (2005) ...?
From a 1946 English translation:
" When Pastor Niemoller was put in a concentration camp we wrote the year 1937; when the concentration camp was opened we wrote the year 1933, and the people who were put in the camps then were Communists. Who cared about them? We knew it, it was printed in the newspapers. Who raised their voice, maybe the Confessing Church? We thought: Communists, those opponents of religion, those enemies of Christians - "should I be my brother's keeper?" Then they got rid of the sick, the so-called incurables. - I remember a conversation I had with a person who claimed to be a Christian. He said: Perhaps it's right, these incurably sick people just cost the state money, they are just a burden to themselves and to others. Isn't it best for all concerned if they are taken out of the middle [of society]? -- Only then did the church as such take note. Then we started talking, until our voices were again silenced in public. Can we say, we aren't guilty/responsible? The persecution of the Jews, the way we treated the occupied countries, or the things in Greece, in Poland, in Czechoslovakia or in Holland, that were written in the newspapers. … I believe, we Confessing-Church-Christians have every reason to say: mea culpa, mea culpa! We can talk ourselves out of it with the excuse that it would have cost me my head if I had spoken out.
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We preferred to keep silent. We are certainly not without guilt/fault, and I ask myself again and again, what would have happened, if in the year 1933 or 1934 - there must have been a possibility - 14,000 Protestant pastors and all Protestant communities in Germany had defended the truth until their deaths? If we had said back then, it is not right when Hermann Goring simply puts 100,000 Communists in the concentration camps, in order to let them die. I can imagine that perhaps 30,000 to 40,000 Protestant Christians would have had their heads cut off, but I can also imagine that we would have rescued 30-40,000 million [sic] people, because that is what it is costing us now."

For his opposition to the Nazi's state control of the churches, Niemoller was imprisoned in S

Lobby of the Crown Uptown Theatre at 3207 E. Douglas Avenue in Wichita, Kansas. It was designed by the Boller Brothers and built by George Siedhoff. It opened in 1928 as the Uptown Theater. It closed down in 1976 and reopened as the Crown Uptown Dinner Theatre in 1977. In 2009 it was renamed the Crown Uptown Theatre. The Crown Uptown is one of only three theaters still in Wichita from the golden days of the movie palaces. The interior is a perfect example of the atmospheric style of theater design.