We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Perhaps the most misunderstood Hero of World War II, was Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg.
Most will not recognize the name, but will know the man when his last deed in service to Germany is noted in, Claus Stauffenberg is the man who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler at Rastenberg with a bomb.
The focus though on the assassination of Adolf Hitler is a propaganda which cloaks the nobility of this German Knight of Bavaria, in why he rose up against a man, a system and an order which he had devoted himself to.
The idea of the Führer principle [...] bound together with a Volksgemeinschaft, the principle "The community good before the individual good," and the fight against corruption, the fight against the spirit of the large urban cities, the racial thought (Rassengedanke), and the will towards a new German-formed legal order appears to us healthy and auspicious.
Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
By 1944 AD in the year of our Lord, this Catholic, who was the definition of the Jewish slur of "Nazi" knew the war was lost, and what was critical was the salvation of Germany in an Armistice with the West. This Veteran, maimed in the eastern campaigns of the Reich, would be a trusted aid of Adolf Hitler, but in this, the Count would note that his ideals of justice in the Krystalnacht and the repression of religious rites in the Reich, were being violated by the Nazis. The violation though was not the motive for his move to stop the war, it was his foresight of knowing the Rape and Genocide of Germany was months away, unless a ceasefire could be negotiated and German soil be preserved from Russian and American occupation, which cost Germany 11 million dead in the Concentration Camp Captivity.
For Stauffenberg, it was not morality which motivated him, but patriotism. The final solution for Germany was that one man must die for Germany to survive and if Hitler was not stopped and the Government seized by patriots, Germany would die.
It was German character which saved Adolf Hitler, for Stauffenberg had placed an explosive briefcase next to Hitler for the assassination, but the orderly instinct of the German taught from childhood up, had unthinkingly moved Colonel Heinz Brandt, standing there to slide the briefcase forward, in an orderly place by a heavy table leg. That is what saved Adolf Hitler.
If it would have been the sloven English, opaque American or laissez faire French, Adolf Hitler would have died as those peoples would never have moved the briefcase.
Stauffenberg - Hitler - Keitel
at Rastenberg
In late 1943, he had written out demands with which he felt the Allies had to comply in order for Germany to agree to an immediate peace. These demands included Germany retaining its 1914 eastern borders, including the Polish territories of Wielkopolska and Poznań. Other demands included keeping such territorial gains as Austria and the Sudetenland within the Reich, giving autonomy to Alsace-Lorraine, and even expansion of the current wartime borders of Germany in the south by annexing Tyrol as far as Bozen and Meran. Non-territorial demands included such points as refusal of any occupation of Germany by the Allies, as well as refusal to hand over war criminals by demanding the right of "nations to deal with its own criminals". These proposals were only directed to the Western Allies – Stauffenberg wanted Germany only to retreat from western, southern and northern positions, while demanding the right to continue military occupation of German territorial gains in the east
Destiny was against Stauffenberg as he did not expect anyone to have survived the blast. Prudence would have required an assassin to make sure the corpse was twice dead by an awl to the ear, but instead he left with another conspirator to rally supporters at Berlin to overthrow the regime.
Communications were not cut, so in a short time Joseph Goebbels radio broadcast that the Furher was alive.
After this the SS soon appeared at the conspirator's office, a firefight was engaged and Stauffenberg was shot in the shoulder. He was executed the following morning by co conspirator General Friedrich Fromm, attempting to divert attention from himself.
Stauffenberg was third in line to be executed, with Lieutenant von Haeften after. However, when it was Stauffenberg's turn, Lieutenant von Haeften placed himself between the firing squad and Stauffenberg, and received the bullets meant for Stauffenberg. When his turn came, Stauffenberg spoke his last words, "Es lebe das heilige Deutschland!" ("Long live our sacred Germany!")
In all of this which is lost, is who Claus Stauffenberg was. He was the anti Hitler in every way. This tall, handsome and imposing German, was the antithesis of all things Hitler hated. Stauffenberg was of the old order, the nobility, and of the Wehrmacht which held themselves above politics as the protectors of Germany.
Hitler mistrusted all of them from his World War I experience and Stauffenberg was the epitome of this moral, Catholic, equestrian order.
Yes Stauffenberg was a royal knight, a man who wore riding costume, was at home on the back of a horse and a Soldier of that mounting. Adolf Hitler was none of these attributes. Hitler was a product of the canvas and the pen. Stauffenberg was a breeding of the kingdom and of the soil.
Claus Stauffenberg was a dichotomy to those around him. He though was best summed up as the offspring of Goethe in German intellectualism, as this educated man embodied the education of Germany from the composure of Wilhelm Richard Wagner to the human sciences of Johann Christian Reil.
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.Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg
This most educated German was an intellectual who employed the Socrates method to arrive to the conclusion of the paradigm cut from the facets of every illuminated thought.
To term Claus Stauffenberg and assassin is the worst misjustice to the greatest Hero of World War II, as his act was not centered on killing anyone, but on saving a nation from the forces without and within which had led it to a precipice of world genocide which has not ever been fully comprehended, but was understood by this most brave, German Knight.
The evil of Adolf Hitler was not his mein kampf, but his destruction of the German internal intellectual and religious order, and his leading Germany to defeat, which would bring the genocide of the German People.
If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.
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