Friedrich Adam von Trott zu Solz was a German lawyer and diplomat who was involved in the conservative resistance to Nazism. A declared opponent of the Nazi regime from the beginning, he actively part
Trott zu Solz in 1943
Adam von Trott zu Solz and his father, c. 1925
Trott zu Solz on trial at the Volksgerichtshof, 1944
Inscription in the chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford in memory of alumni including Trott zu Solz
The 20 July plot, sometimes referred to as Operation Valkyrie, was a failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany, and overthrow the Nazi government on 20 July 1944. The pl
Adam von Trott zu Solz
…James Graf von Moltke and Peter Yorck von Wartenburg. Together with Claus von Stauffenberg and Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg, he conspired in the 20 July plot and was supposed to have been appointed Secretary of State in the German Foreign Office and lead negotiator with the Western Allies if the plot had…
Martin Bormann, Hermann Göring, and Bruno Loerzer surveying the damaged conference room
Battle fronts in Europe as of 15 July 1944
Stauffenberg with Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim in June 1944
Generaloberst Ludwig Beck