#Stauffenberg

[lebedame-wegelagerin]

On this 20th of July remember that the Group of the 20 July Plot included many Aristocrats, Nationalists, Fascists and War Criminals, whose Opposition to Hitler was rooted in his Person and how he did Things, not National-Socialism itself. There Goal was first and foremost to save Germany from the Allies.

[dodounchained]

[armerarmin]

Nachdem es über den Putschversuch vom 20. Juli 1944 schon zwei Filme in der Nachkriegszeit gab (jeweils einen in der BRD und einen in der DDR) und zuletzt Tom Cruise in "Operation Walküre" Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg gespielt hat würde ich mich jetzt über eine neue Produktion mit Til Schweiger (Regie, Produzent, Hauptdarsteller) sehr freuen. Immerhin gibt´s genügend verregnete Wochenenden die auf die eine oder andere Art gefüllt werden mögen.

[rcvandenboogaard]

Tegen emotionele propaganda hebben argumenten niet veel zin

Omdat de politieke partij D66 het niet zo geweldig had gedaan bij de Kamerverkiezingen van 2022 werd er door het partijbestuur een commissie ingesteld die de dieperliggende oorzaken van het falen bloot moest leggen. Er kwam een rapport waarin onder andere gezegd werd dat de op zich heel redelijke en verstandige standpunten van D66, vertolkt door bewindslieden en andere partijprominenten die…

[miezzekatze]

20. July

[precious-little-scoundrel]

“it is well that war is so terrible

or we should grow too fond of it”

[nade2308]

Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, USN, Naval Aviator, "Top Gun", 1986

Lieutenant Junior Grade Daniel Kaffee, USN, JAG Corps, "A Few Good Men", 1992

Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, Geman Army, "Valkyrie", 2008

Roy Miller/Matthew Knight, CIA operative, "Knight and Day", 2010

Ethan Hunt, IMF agent in disguise as General Anatoly Fedorov, Russian Army, "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol", 2011

Jack Reacher, ex-Major and investigator for the 110th Military Police Special Investigation Unit, US Army, "Jack Reacher", 2012

William Cage, public affairs officer and Major, US Army, "Edge of Tomorrow", 2014

Jack Reacher, ex-Major and investigator for the 110th Military Police Special Investigation Unit, US Army, "Jack Reacher: Never go back", 2016

Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, USN, Naval Aviator, test pilot and flight instructor for the Navy, "Top Gun: Maverick", 2022

Barry Seal, airline commercial pilot for TWA, "American Made", 2017

"A man becomes the creature of his uniform."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

@thethistlegirl @malewifebillcage

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Some designated paintings🙌

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[godwithwethands]

TOM CRUISE as COLONEL VON STAUFFENBERG in VALKYRIE (2008) dir Bryan Singer

[kriegsabstieg]

Adolf Hitler at the Wolfsschanze a few days before the 20th July bomb attack by Claus von Stauffenberg, who is pictured on the left

[eemcintyre]

I wish every day that we could have had more curly-haired Tom 🥲🥺

(gifs from the inimitable @godwithwethands and photo from @iwanttorefri)

[aortaargent]

this is stupid levels of fun and I must disclaim that zero (0) thought goes into this I just throw them into spots that feel right like blindfolded darts

[pedroam-bang]

Valkyrie (2008)

[arbandes]

Hier starben für Deutschland ...

Generaloberst Ludwig Beck General der Infanterie Friedrich Olbricht Oberst Claus Graf Schenck von Stauffenberg Oberst Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim Oberleutnant Werner von Haeften

Bronze Statue (1953) von Richard Scheibe (1879-1964).  

Berlin, Bendlerblock.  Coordinates (52.50785, 13.36244).

[vonstauffenberg]

Submission by soyoulovemehuh

I’m pretty sure it was in 2019 when I saw the documentary “Officers against Hitler” on German television, so it must have been the 75th anniversary of Hitler’s assassination attempt. And there was a short scene in which you can see Stauffenberg, because it was on TV I couldn’t grasp what I saw so quickly, I later forgot about it. The documentary is from 2004 (three parts) and it’s very well made and various contemporary witnesses and people who were there at the time in the Bendlerblock have their say. Some time ago I remembered the whole thing and looked for the documentary online, as I had only seen the first part at the time on TV, and it is indeed uploaded on youtube.

Of course I immediately looked for that scene and found it, but it’s not a close-up, he’s standing in the background and the film material is from the 1930s and therefore not of such good quality, so don’t be disappointed, but we’ll never get anything better from him. The narrator says “Stauffenberg here on a previously unknown film shot with his regiment”. You don’t find out exactly when, but it must have been before the war. I’ve watched it a few times now and at first I was sceptical, I briefly thought “that could be anyone!” BUT THEN he smiles/grins and that got me, because it looks just like that smile/grin we know from the photos! And this is, as I said, a reputable, well made documentary, not some trash. I had cut out the scene, but you can’t upload video from your own hard drive here.

Above the video with the time stamp. If that doesn’t work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWplcz-pDw&t=398s&ab_channel=Dokus (around min. 6:38 to 6:52)

A dream would be an audio of his voice and walk/movement. His granddaughter, who published a book about him in 2019, said in an interview that according to her grandmother Nina, the actor Sebastian Koch (who played him in the German film “Stauffenberg” from 2004) embodied him best, she (Nina) was thrilled by his performance and has said “that’s how my husband moved, that’s how my husband talked Swabian (the dialect you speak in the region around Stuttgart, among others) when he got together with other Swabians”.