Introduction -- Opposition in flames -- "That damned mare!" : the army top-brass scandal -- The officer, the mayor, and the spy -- "In the darkest colors" : the decision of General Beck -- The bird and its cage : first attempt at coup d'état, September 1938 -- Without a network : the lone assassin -- The point of no return : pogrom and war -- The spirit of Zossen : when networks fail -- Signs in the darkness : rebuilding the conspiracy -- On the wings of thought : networks of imagination -- Brokers on the frontline : the new strategy -- War of extermination : the conspirators and the Holocaust -- "Flash" and liqueur bottles : assassination attempts in the East -- Codename U-7 : rescue and abyss -- Count Stauffenberg : the charismatic turn -- Thou shalt kill : the problem of tyrannicide -- A wheel conspiracy : the Stauffenberg Era -- The final showdown : July 20, 1944 -- The shirt of Nessus -- Motives in the twilight -- Networks of resistance -- Epilogue.