«Теневой канцлер» антигитлеровской оппозиции Карл Фридрих Гёрделер и Россия
The “Shadow Chancellor” of the Anti-Hitler Opposition Karl Friedrich Goerdeler and Russia

Summary/Abstract: The study of the history of the anti-Hitler Resistance of the Germans to Hitler in the XXI century remains one of the urgent tasks of the historiography of the Second World War. In this regard, the policy of the “shadow chancellor” of the conservative anti-Hitler opposition, Karl Friedrich Goerdeler, needs a more thorough study, in particular, his attitude towards Russia. The article, based on little-known German sources in Russia (memoranda, reports and letters of Goerdeler, Kaltenbrunner protocols), examines the problem of a political alternative to Hitler, which part of the militarybureaucratic and diplomatic elite of Germany put forward during World War II; determines the role of Goerdeler’s personality in conservative Resistance; examines Goerdeler’s views on the economy and foreign policy of Germany, in particular, on relations to Russia, the problem of concluding peace and determining Germany’s place in the post-war world. Using traditional methods of historical research (historical, logical, comparative-historical, chronological) within the framework of positivist methodology, the author traces the political evolution of the politician by the example of Goerdeler’s attitude to Russia. However, the anti-Soviet, unilaterally pro-Western (Anglo-American) political line characteristic of Goerdeler was objectively aimed at splitting the anti-Hitler coalition, which the leaders of Great Britain and the United States could not afford during the coalition war, since they needed the USSR as an ally in the fight against Nazi Germany.

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