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von stauffenberg
For those who read German: here's a piece about von Stauffenberg who started his officer's career in 1929 as an enthusiastic Nazi, a matter that the ahistorial US film entirely ignores. http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2009/0117/feuilleton/0010/index.html
Posted to Life and Art by mikerol on January 17, 2009
Killing Hitler
.Graf von Stauffenberg, like many Prussian aristocrats ( including von Hindenburg who, as president of the Wiemar Republic, reluctantly acceded to Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, expecting him to be kept on very short leash by more adept politicians surrounding him ) were resentful of Hitler's rise to power, not because of his anti-semitism or ...
Posted to Life and Art by skyraider1 on January 15, 2009