Why should we believe there was a plot to assassinate one of the world's greatest leaders? Who owns the school textbook publishing companies? And it's always the "winners" of wars who wrote the history books. The "winners" never, ever do anything bad, and the "losers" are always the most evil people to have ever been born.
The Attentat and other resistance to Nazism and attempts on Hitler's life were very serious and very real. I have read dozens of books about the German resistance etc. Biographies, accounts of people who were witnesses, later analysis, etc.
I frankly do not know what is in school "history" books about it. School books are not serious historical sources after all.
Start with a serious bio about von Stauffenberg. Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg who was shot on the day the coup failed. There is a statue of him in the Bendlerblock court yard where he was shot. Many others were arrested and killed later. "estimates of around 4,980 executions among the conspirators".
His wife: "Nina von Stauffenberg, the wife of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, was imprisoned by the Gestapo after her husband's failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in 1944. She endured harsh treatment during her imprisonment and gave birth to her youngest child while incarcerated." In the chaos of the end of the war, her family finally located and rescued her: "She was reunited with her family after the war, when American forces arrived in Germany."
These are real people, whose stories of noble resistance deserve to be understood.
For one, Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg's sister Countess Elisabeth von der Schulenburg, widely known by her nickname Tisa, in her memoir specifically mentioned Stauffenberg visiting when Fritz was there. There is a stone in the family cemetery for Fritz who was executed and body not returned. So that is only one of the many books I read written by witnesses from the times. And I visited the family cemetery there. I did not keep a bibliography and most of my books are in storage.
PS I read her memoirs in German and do not have a copy, but I took photos of some of the pages. I have seen in referenced in French. If there is an English version I am not aware of it.
Why should we believe there was a plot to assassinate one of the world's greatest leaders? Who owns the school textbook publishing companies? And it's always the "winners" of wars who wrote the history books. The "winners" never, ever do anything bad, and the "losers" are always the most evil people to have ever been born.
The Attentat and other resistance to Nazism and attempts on Hitler's life were very serious and very real. I have read dozens of books about the German resistance etc. Biographies, accounts of people who were witnesses, later analysis, etc.
I frankly do not know what is in school "history" books about it. School books are not serious historical sources after all.
Start with a serious bio about von Stauffenberg. Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg who was shot on the day the coup failed. There is a statue of him in the Bendlerblock court yard where he was shot. Many others were arrested and killed later. "estimates of around 4,980 executions among the conspirators".
His wife: "Nina von Stauffenberg, the wife of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, was imprisoned by the Gestapo after her husband's failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in 1944. She endured harsh treatment during her imprisonment and gave birth to her youngest child while incarcerated." In the chaos of the end of the war, her family finally located and rescued her: "She was reunited with her family after the war, when American forces arrived in Germany."
These are real people, whose stories of noble resistance deserve to be understood.
Who wrote those books?
For one, Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg's sister Countess Elisabeth von der Schulenburg, widely known by her nickname Tisa, in her memoir specifically mentioned Stauffenberg visiting when Fritz was there. There is a stone in the family cemetery for Fritz who was executed and body not returned. So that is only one of the many books I read written by witnesses from the times. And I visited the family cemetery there. I did not keep a bibliography and most of my books are in storage.
PS I read her memoirs in German and do not have a copy, but I took photos of some of the pages. I have seen in referenced in French. If there is an English version I am not aware of it.