75 yrs ago,Claus von Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler

Jul 21, 2019
1:05:29am

MatthiasG All-American

May sound weird, but a personal hero o’ mine.

My father tried to kill Hitler

Seventy years ago, a German army officer entered a secret Nazi complex on the Eastern Front - his mission was to kill Adolf Hitler

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75 yrs ago,Claus von Stauffenberg tried to kill Hitler

MatthiasG

7/21/19 1:05am

That quote from his son is spot on:

Game Changer

7/21/19 1:51am

Yep, I have relatives that immigrated to the US in the late 30's from Germany

MatthiasG

7/21/19 2:15am

Thanks for sharing...

So it goes...

7/21/19 2:20am

RE: Yep, I have relatives that immigrated to the US in the late 30's from

Borg

7/21/19 6:49am

Die Weiße Rose is very well known

Dissenter

7/21/19 6:24am

There were others, this board would probably be interested in Helmuth Hubener.

Blue Coat

7/21/19 6:28am

A great book, Hubener vs Hitler is about the LDS youth

HighHorse

7/21/19 7:33am

There's a documentary on him on YouTube as well

califcougar

7/21/19 7:54am

Something to think about is in WW1 Germany's military was not defeated. In fact

Dynasty1

7/21/19 7:04am

Many of the German people hated Hitler by the end of the war, yet

HighHorse

7/21/19 7:35am

The German military was definitely defeated in WW1. The fact that the Allied powers

Clark Addison

7/21/19 10:22am

Within weeks? Not even close. Even after the US joined the war effort we barely

Dynasty1

7/21/19 10:37am

Is weeks optimistic? Maybe, but the allies were already advancing; it wasn't as if there had just

Clark Addison

7/21/19 10:55am

So you agree that it wasn’t a military defeat but rather a political calculation

Dynasty1

7/21/19 10:58am

No. It wasn't the political leaders who decided to end it, it was the military leaders. And supply

Clark Addison

7/21/19 11:12am

I think we're arguing semantics here and totally going off topic from my

Dynasty1

7/21/19 11:31am

Yes, some of it is semantics (and we partly do not disagree). I will say that the politicians signed

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