Katherine Quinlan-Flatter talks about her research into the political activation of the Wehrmacht in the closing years of the Second World War. In the winter of 1943, several members of the Reich Propaganda Ministry and the military in Germany still believed that the war could be won if the ultimate secret weapon – the fanatical belief in the ideology of the Third Reich – were deployed. In a last desperate attempt to implement a new type of political activism, a secret plan was thus put into practice from the end…