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Forthcoming/Anticipated release
by Haynes Publishing June 2009
 Description
On the night of July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler gave a radio speech to the
German nation to reassure them that he had survived an assassination
attempt. He described the men who had tried to kill him as “a tiny clique of ambitious,
unscrupulous and criminally stupid officers.”
The only conspirator he named was Graf Stauffenberg.
Rarely has Hitler been so successful in shaping opinion even
to our day.
The Western Allies picked up Hitler’s theme at once: only a tiny clique of officers had been involved. A “tiny clique” meant that not enough people had been involved to cancel the call for Unconditional Surrender or to upset the policy of collective guilt. Furthermore, the civilian component in the conspiracy was completely ignored. The West insisted on seeing the coup attempt of July 20, 1944 as a “Generals’ Plot.” Because the attempt failed, it was equally easy to accept Hitler’s characterization of the conspirators as incompetent. In retrospect they had done everything wrong. The bomb had failed to kill the victim. The conspirators failed to cut off communications to and from Hitler’s HQ. The orders went out too late. The conspirators didn’t even have control of their own troops, who soon turned against them. Was any more evidence needed that these men were “criminally stupid?” And just as Hitler named only one person, the predominant image presented in the literature to this day is of a single heroic figure – Stauffenberg – struggling alone to achieve the goal of eliminating Hitler. But the world rarely corresponded to Hitler’s – or Hollywood’s – vision of it. If one is prepared to suspend one’s prejudice and follow the journey of an individual man through the forge of history, one can come closer to the truth. This is Friedrich Olbricht’s story, the first biography of the originator of Plan Valkyrie in the English language. |
ANCIENT SPARTA I MEDIEVAL/KNIGHTS TEMPLAR I WWII & AFTERMATH
ORDER I E-MAIL I GUEST BOOK
ERRATA I LINKS I AWARDS I RINGS I HOME
NOTE: In building
this site, I thought about many things - such as what spelling standard
I should use in
referring to World War II, and what keyword spelling people might use
in a search engine to find this page. I found it interesting
to
note the following numbers of page listings for the various ways one
might type World War II into a search engine. 
6,050,000 for
world
war two 5,860,000
for world
war 2 134,000,000
for world
war II (using the capital i for the 2) 83,900 for
world war
ll (using the lower case L for the 2) 26,200,000
for second
world war 310,000 for
2nd world
war 21,600 for
ww two 804,000 for
ww 2 7,130,000
for ww ii
(using the i for the 2) 46,300 for
ww ll
(using the lower case L for the 2) 21,600 for
w.w. two 804,000 for
W.W.2 7,130,000
for w.w.II
(using the capital i for the 2) 46,300 for
w.w.ll
(using the lower case l for the 2)Note that capitalization, punctuation and spacing changes introduced no differences. So if you are looking for information on a particular subject, remember to use all variations of the wrods related to the subject. The pages a search engine will give you to look at will vary with each method. Also in general, I have referred to World War II on these pages using WWII (using the capital i for the 2). |
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