Posted on 08/08/2023 8:05:43 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1944, Nazi Germany’s juridical vengeance against Hitler’s near-assassins commenced.
Barely two weeks after Col. Stauffenberg‘s bomb had barely missed slaying the Fuhrer, eight of his principal co-conspirators stood show trials at the Volksgerichtshof (People’s Court) before hectoring prig Roland Freisler.
The outcome, of course, was foreordained.
Apparently orders had come down from on high to make the deaths as degrading as possible; this batch, convicted August 7-8, was hanged naked this day at Berlin’s Plotzensee Prison on thin cord (piano wire, say some sources, although it’s not clear to me whether this is literally true) suspended from meathooks while cameras rolled. Video and stills from the ghastly scene were shipped back to Hitler’s bomb-damaged Polish outpost for the edification of the powers that be.....
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Too bad Ol’ Adolf wasn’t blown to bits.
My bet is that Jack Smith gets dressed up in his purple robe and fancies himself another Roland Freisler, in the service of his party.
> Too bad Ol’ Adolf wasn’t blown to bits. <
Hitler was an appalling bad military strategist. The argument has been made that it’s good that he wasn’t killed in the explosion. Because if he had died, his replacement certainly would have been smarter. And so the war would have lasted longer.
On the other hand, would his replacement have closed the death camps? If he was an SS general, no. If he was a regular army general, probably.
“Hitler was an appalling bad military strategist. “
I’m sure that was true later in the War.
But the Fall Gelb / Sickle Stroke was pushed thru by Hitler over the objections of the German General Staff, who wanted a WW1 rerun of the Schlieffen Plan with Panzers.
Hey, thanks for cheering us all up.
I am positive killing only Hitler would have done nothing to stop the war. The propaganda would have made him a martyr and they would have just killed even more germans as conspirators. The war could only end as it did. With one side exhausted and unable to wage war any longer.
This is the nature of war.
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Jack Smith is more like Andrei Vyshinski, Stalin’s hangman.
Vyshinski was Freisler’s role model. Freisler started out as a Bolshevik, even Hitler referred to Freisler as “That Old Bolshevik”.
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