ABSTRACT
The ultimate goal of the "Red Chapel" was the overthrow of the Hitler regime and its replacement by a German state patterned on Soviet Russia. Organized in cells, quite a few of which had only loose connections with one another and which performed more or less independently, they employed the following methods: Training of followers in small groups; and Propaganda. When, in the summer of 1942, a propaganda exhibit with the title "The Soviet Paradise" was shown in Berlin, Schulze-Boysen started a counter-action. The decisive difference between the 'Red Chapel and the Beck-Goerdeler groups has to be sought on another level, and this difference becomes clear when the authors examine their respective principles. In comparing the aims of the "Red Chapel" and Beck-Goerdeler groups, the authors find that they agreed only in their desire to overthrow the Hitler regime, not in answering the question of what was to happen afterwards.
