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  1. Neo,

    Take a look, too, at the remarkable story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, at told by the formidable Eric Metaxas.

    Bonhoeffer was a Christian who walked the walk.

    Jamie Irons

  2. Another one of the conspirators who is well worth remembering: Hans Oster. He fully understood the evil of Naziism long before many of the others did, and was a key organizer of the conspiracy and recruiter of other members.

    More here

  3. neo-neocon: It is of interest that most of the Wehrmacht plotters were religious men as well as aristocrats and patriots. I believe that was of consequence; note the religious reference in Tresckow’s final words.

    Tresckow was almost certainly Lutheran, given his final comments. Bonhoeffer obviously was. The “left undone” formulation is straight out of the Lutheran Confession of Sins. As a committed Lutheran (I believe) and military officer, Tresckow no doubt came to believe that to fail to at least attempt to assassinate Hitler would put his immortal soul in grave danger.

  4. hollyweird constantly does progressive culture bombs, when there is such a wealth of real interesting bigger than life stories like rotting fruit fallen from the trees.

  5. Having been burned in 1918 by leaving those “vons” free to fight another day, the western allies were in no mood to repeat that mistake. In hindsight they probably should have, but it would have taken beyond-human dispassion to have seen this at the time. While a few million lives might have been spared had the war ended in ’43 or ’44, the Germany Tresckow & co wanted to save was dead no matter whether their plot had succeeded or not.

  6. There is a very good memoir about the native German resistance which I read years ago – Germans (mostly of a very religious background) who were anti-Nazi from the beginning. The author was Bernt Engelmann, who was a resistant from the time he was 12 years old, along with his family and many those friends of his family.
    http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Germany-Bernt-Engelmann/dp/0394524497
    I grew up in a fairly devout Lutheran family; in the congregations that I knew as a child and teenager in Southern California were a fair number of German emigres who had left Germany in the 1930s precisely because they were anti-Nazis.
    My mother told me that one of the most horrendous ruckuses in one of those congregations came about because an elderly, American-born member left in his will sufficient funds to buy an American flag and a stand so that it could be put on display in the chancel. The German-emigre contingent went absolutely spare at this, remembering how the Nazis had demanded that the Nazi flag be displayed in German churches. And when the American-born contingent found out about the comparison … oh, my. The ruckus was so impassioned and prolonged that my mother doesn’t actually remember who won, eventually.
    I do recommend the Bernt Englemann book, by the way.

  7. Artfl…There is a Hollywood movie about the anti-Hitler bomb plot: Valkyrie. My review is here.

    I thought it was generally a good film; however, the portrayal of Erich Fellgiebel was IMO unpardonable license with the character of a real person.

  8. I think there is a summary of the attempts to kill Hitler in “Assassin” by Paul Elliot. Johann Georg Elser is my choice for the bravest; Tresckow et. al. for the thoroughest and noblest. Many of the assassins have had postage stamps in their honor. That makes me uneasy, but the world would be better place if Putin, Chavez, Castro, etc. had more worries instead of fewer.

  9. armchair.
    I think you’re right. I would expand your point to make it the reason for unconditional surrender in Germany.
    And the plans for invading anc onquering Japan. Letting’em up easy didn’t work so well post 1918 and it wasn’t going to happen again, even for first-time offenders.
    Fortunately, we had the atomic bomb so we didn’t need to fight for every square inch of Japanese soil.

  10. david foster Says: Artfl…There is a Hollywood movie about the anti-Hitler bomb plot: Valkyrie.

    i am familiar with Valkyrie, and that there were woods fghters too… but BOTH were nto made until 70 years AFTER the war..

    i can list out dozens and dozens of incredible stories that have NOT been made movies, and with EACH of them list 5 movies that were only hits because the pretend awards want us to payola them to the top, like gay cowboys in love, and a whole list of crud, along with a huge list of remakes reimagining them to the progressive ideal (charlie and the chocolate factory vs willy wonka with gene wilder. or rudolph by rankin bass and its remake with big stars who dont have credits but is a marxian remake)

    Chosin would make a great movie

    you know who Audie Murphy is, and you know who Alvin York is…

    do you know David Hackworth?
    he is the most decorated soldier in US history, 90 decorations, citations and awards…

    Combat Infantryman Badge
    Distinguished Service Cross (with oak leaf cluster)
    Silver Star (with 1 Silver Oak Leaf Cluster and 4 Oak Leaf Clusters)
    Legion of Merit (with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters)
    Bronze Star (with V device and one silver Oak Leaf Cluster and one Oak Leaf Cluster)
    Purple Heart (with one silver Oak Leaf Cluster and one Oak Leaf Cluster)
    Air Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Good Conduct Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Army of Occupation Medal, Korean Service Medal, Vietnam Service.

    After World War II, Audie Murphy went on to star in 44 movies and establish himself as a country western music composer.

    Matt L. Urban
    Joe Hooper
    George Lawson Keene

    The honor for the most decorated woman veteran goes to Colonel Ruby Bradley.
    Legion of Merit medals
    Bronze Star
    two Presidential Emblems
    the Meritorious Unit Emblem
    The American Defense Service Medal
    the American Campaign Medal
    the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
    the World War II Victory Medal
    the Army Occupational Medal with Japan clasp
    three Korea Service medals
    the Philippine Liberation Medal
    the Philippine Independence Ribbon
    the United Nations Service Medal

    Robert L. Howard was the only member to be up for THREE Congressional Medal of Honor Awards within a thirteen month period

    Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller…
    Paul Jarrett
    James Williams

    and thats just military…
    what about great literature?

    science fiction i would not mind seeing
    Stranger in a strange land (over battlefield earth?)
    The Roads Must Roll
    Childhood’s End
    The Nine Billion Names of God
    The Sirens of Titan
    Dorsai!
    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    The Stainless Steel Rat

    oh how they massacred dune in the first movie by making it rain, and destroying all the other movies by doing so

    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (would be GREAT today)

    give me Ringworld, take away waterworld…

    and how about the GOR series (more interesting than sadism on tap in saw)

    Dhalgren

    how about classical lit?

    Lady Windermere’s Fan
    The Clockmaker
    White Narcissus
    Absalom, Absalom
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich
    Diary of a Madman (lu xun)
    A Doll’s House
    The Idiot
    Journey to the End of the Night
    The Man Without Qualities
    Midnight’s Children
    Old Goriot

    if i listed out the works that WERE done, you would be VERY surprised, but MOST were done BEFORE the socialist revolution and the desire to destroy culture and remove any uplifting anything…

    so if you want to see…
    Zorba the Greek
    Wuthering Heights
    War and Peace
    The Trial
    Pride and Prejudice
    Othello

    you have to go back, to before socialist take over of media, school, etc… (after that, even greats have been re-imagined to carry the party line)

    no in stead this year we get

    Piranha 3D
    The Bounty Hunter
    The Back-up Plan
    Clash of the Titans 3D
    Cop Out
    Grown Ups
    The Last Airbender

    heck, i can even give you science stories that would be niftier…

  11. Another anti-Hitler schemer who is overlooked is Erich Hoepner.

    He’d been trying to kill Hitler/overthrow him since 1939ish.

    He commanded Panzer Group North — to include the 3rd SS Division. That’s the one composed ENTIRELY of Death Kamp troops. He gave it every single rotten task he could come up with; he tried to kill every last man in the formation. Dang near did it, too.

    He DELIBERATELY frustrated further advances upon reaching Leningrad — burning out German attack power. He rightly feared that the collapse of Leningrad — in a pocket — might trigger a domino chain.

    Eventually, he was pulled from command after enough complaints and suspicions.

    Subsequently hauled in after the bomb plot. Died on piano wire cursing Hitler and letting him know — for sure — that he’d screwed him big time in ’41.

    Hence, the commentary you’ll see in “Downfall” about his Generals DELIBERATELY frustrating him in the East. Obviously, a reference to Hoepner — no one else fits.

    This also explains why Hitler became ever more involved with personal interventions: allegations of perfidious command decisions were floating all over OKH. ( First as finger pointing, second as many commanders were gagging on Hitler’s fantastically destructive repression there WAS some kick.

  12. This book, although a bit prosaic, but quite enlightening about the resistance to AH and many of the conspirators:
    Matriarch of Conspiracy:
    Ruth Von Kleist, 1867-1945
    By Jane Pejsa
    It also includes Bonhoeffer

  13. Henning was my great Uncle. We are proud of his efforts and appreciate your research.
    AM

  14. Thank you very much, Winifred-Alice, and you should indeed be proud of your great Uncle. He had great courage and great foresight.

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