It was a very historically accurate and well-done movie. Cruise was the film’s weakest link, but if his star power gets more people to watch an important movie, then so be it.
Stauffenberg was no doubt a hero, though one would have to acknowledge that, by July, 1944, anyone from the Prussian aristocracy like Stauffenberg would have a huge personal stake in Germany working out some kind of peace arrangement with the USSR. At that time, the Soviet’s Operation Bagration was chewing up German divisions and spitting them out in Poland. The writing was very much on the wall at that point, and it was clear that any Prussian aristocrats wouldn’t fare very well under Soviet rule.
I thought it was a very good movie altogether. I don’t shiv a git about the actors that portrayed the individuals that were involved in the action, they did a good job IMO.
I watched a program last night that gave the history of “Valkyrie”. I couldn’t understand, and it wasn’t explicitely stated, why they came up with all these elaborate plans. Did Hitler have all those who met with him searched and dis-armed? Surely, someone had to have had a pistol.
B*ll Sh*t!!!
These officers were in deep enough to be part of the inner circle. close enough to plant a bomb at a major strategic meeting with Hitler. They were okay with everything until the wheels starting coming off the wagon. They were scrambling so that they could cut a better deal. This is just another attempt to re-write history,