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Hitler Plotter's Wife Dies (Mrs. Von Staffenberg).
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| 3 April 2006
| Associated Press
Posted on 04/03/2006 6:14:50 AM PDT by AmericanDave
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I left out NAZI, in the heroic Col Staffenburgs's honor, as he was a HERO and came closest to eliminating Hitler.
To: AmericanDave
I thought it said "Harry Potter's wife dies".
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posted on
04/03/2006 6:19:07 AM PDT
by
zarf
(It's time for a college football playoff system.)
To: AmericanDave
A picture of the count.....
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posted on
04/03/2006 6:23:30 AM PDT
by
AmericanDave
("and I want those lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican."Bruce Willis)
To: AmericanDave
I had read that the Nazis killed 10,000 people in all manner of brutal methods in retribution, wiping out entire families, so I was surprised to hear that van Staffenburg's widow had survived for more than a few days, much less 62 years!
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posted on
04/03/2006 6:25:09 AM PDT
by
wildandcrazyrussian
(Islam is no more a "religion of peace" than communism was an "economic system of peace".)
To: AmericanDave
And there she is with him...
...and the count's handiwork...
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posted on
04/03/2006 6:29:36 AM PDT
by
Crispus Attucks Patriot
(The first to give his life for your liberty was a Black man!)
To: zarf
Ditto. Note to self, don't try to read monitor without glasses.
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posted on
04/03/2006 6:38:05 AM PDT
by
SAMS
(Nobody loves a soldier until the enemy is at the gate; Army Wife & Marine Mom)
The Catholic Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg sought and received permission from his Bishop to assassinate Hitler.
To: AmericanDave
Her husband was a brave man. She lived many years without him.
Interestingly among other assassination plotters executed was Erwin Planck, son the great scientist Max Planck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck
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posted on
04/03/2006 6:48:37 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: wildandcrazyrussian
--ditto--I was under the impression all the family were killed, also--
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posted on
04/03/2006 6:50:21 AM PDT
by
rellimpank
(Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
To: wildandcrazyrussian
She just barely survived, according to Wikipedia:
Stauffenberg had married Nina Baroness (Freiherrin) von Lerchenfeld on 1933-11-26 in Bamberg. They had five children: Berthold, Heimeran, Franz-Ludwig, Valerie and Konstanze. She was interned in a concentration camp after her husband's execution. She died aged 93 on 2006-04-02 near Bamberg. The eldest son, Berthold, became a general in West Germany's new army, the Bundeswehr.
His widow Nina described her late husband thus:
"He let things come to him, and then he made up his mind ... one of his characteristics was that he really enjoyed playing the devil's advocate. Conservatives were convinced that he was a ferocious Nazi, and ferocious Nazis were convinced he was an unreconstructed conservative. He was neither."
Quoted in The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh (ISBN 0333644875).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_von_Stauffenberg
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posted on
04/03/2006 6:51:37 AM PDT
by
Riley
("What color is the boathouse at Hereford?")
To: silverleaf
Your link is very interesting....
..Planck's first three children died in their 20's.....one during WWI and the two daughters both died during childbirth...(one can only wonder if both could have survived with today's modern technology)...
..his wife died of possible tuberculosis...(definitely a curable diesease nowadays)...
.Yet he remained stoic through this...
..he must have instilled values in his children....one fighting a war...and the older son killed for trying to assassinate Hitler.
Amazing stuff!
To: AmericanDave; Admin Moderator
Please correct title: Stauffenberg
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:02:31 AM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: A.A. Cunningham
The Catholic Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg sought and received permission from his Bishop to assassinate Hitler. Good thing he didn't ask Detroit auxiliary bishop Gumbleton. He would have been advised to be more "understanding."
To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
Sorry, I don't know how to correct a post, would be glad to do so.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:09:32 AM PDT
by
AmericanDave
("and I want those lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican."Bruce Willis)
To: AmericanDave
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:11:24 AM PDT
by
Theoden
(Fidei Defensor - Deus vult!)
To: AmericanDave
Most cities in (Western) Germany today have a "Von Staffenberg Platz", or "Strasse". A lot of these are in the less well-traveled and out of the way parts of town, however.
To: AmericanDave
Imagine that! Someone tried to get rid of a dictator who had invaded other countries and killed his own people.
Too bad FDR didn't pre-emptively get rid of Hitler when Hitler began to ignore the rules the world community had put in place to "contain" Germany.
Millions of lives would have been saved, perhaps even Von Staffenberg's.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:33:41 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(Millions of lives might have been saved if FDR had pre-emptively deposed Hitler in 1936.)
To: Crispus Attucks Patriot
Welcome aboard young man. I Read your profile, very impressive.
Here in Indianapolis we have a Crispus Attucks High School, and are aware of his sacrifice.
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:49:18 AM PDT
by
smug
(Tanstaafl)
To: smug
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posted on
04/03/2006 7:55:37 AM PDT
by
Crispus Attucks Patriot
(The first to give his life for your liberty was a Black man!)
To: syriacus
Hitler should have been killed when he violated the Treaty of Versailles, just like Saddam should have been killed the first time he violated the peace agreement he signed after the first Gulf War.
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posted on
04/03/2006 9:06:26 AM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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