The purpose of the author of the study is professors of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Regional Studies of the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State Humanitarian University, editor of the department and member of the editorial board of the journal "New and Recent History" of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences B. L. Khavkin - determining the role and significance of the German anti-Hitler Resistance in the history of World War II and World War II, his influence on the anti-Hitler coalition, the problem of a separate peace, the creation of the post-Hitler government of Germany and the determination of Germany's place in the post-war world.