Posted on 04/03/2006 6:14:50 AM PDT by AmericanDave
May she RIP.
..>The Catholic Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg sought and received permission from his Bishop to assassinate Hitler.<
I didn't know that. Did the Nazi's find out about that? What happened to the Bishop?
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/1148/july9.html
"...On 11th and 15th July, Stauffenberg was invited to a military meeting with Hitler. He failed to activate the bomb in these meetings: one time because the S.S commander, Himmler, was not there and Stauffenberg thought that he must be killed with Hitler, and one time because the Fuhrer left the meeting before Stauffenberg could activate the bomb. In 20th July, 1944, Stauffenberg was invited to another meeting with Hitler. In 19th July he confessed before the Catholic bishop of Berlin. In that night he trained in activating the bomb. He, and everyone else, were waiting for tomorrow. The fate of Germany was depended in the actions of one man."...
If you check what the plotters had in common in the Wehrmacht, you will find one name Erwin Rommel.
Yes, and Rommel was so famous they allowed him to commit suicide rather than hang him like most of the others.
I'm beginning to agree with that train of thought. The International Community let Hitler do as he wanted and, as a result, millions suffered and died.
Well in this nation, before 1941, we were in a isolationist mode. Also Chamberlin trying to appease Hitler didn't help much either..
But Churchill's leadership Saved the Bloody Day!
Hitler could have been stopped by Allied action on two occasions. The first was when he reoccupied the Rhineland, which had been demilitarized. The second, of course, was when he threatened Czechoslovakia. We now know that, on the second occasion anyway, that if the Allies had resisted, that the Wehrmacht would have deposed him. But the will to act was not there. Another example was the British military pullout from Iraq in 1932, before the civilian government was firmly established and the country was fully unified. As a result, they had to retake Iraq during WWII when its government tried to make an alliance with Hitler.
I hope we've learned something. We shouldn't avoid all confrontations or enter every fray, but sometimes bad folks need to be stopped before they get too powerful.
What was the name of the Gestapo agent invloved in the assassination plot?
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