TREASON: Claus von Stauffenberg and the plot to kill Hitler
Brian Walters
11 episodes
9 months ago
Send us a textOnce the coup collapsed, the Nazis outdid themselves in their fury. It remained to be seen who would be caught in their net.Some conspirators committed suicide. Some managed to escape.Thousands were rounded up. The Gestapo tortured their victims, placed them on show trials, and hanged them.At their trials before the Nazi ‘People’s Court’, with nothing left to lose, the July plotters proved remarkably difficult to cow.Relatives of conspirators were also arrested and imprisoned.Ni...
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Send us a textOnce the coup collapsed, the Nazis outdid themselves in their fury. It remained to be seen who would be caught in their net.Some conspirators committed suicide. Some managed to escape.Thousands were rounded up. The Gestapo tortured their victims, placed them on show trials, and hanged them.At their trials before the Nazi ‘People’s Court’, with nothing left to lose, the July plotters proved remarkably difficult to cow.Relatives of conspirators were also arrested and imprisoned.Ni...
TREASON: Claus von Stauffenberg and the plot to kill Hitler
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Operation Valkyrie
Send us a textWith over a million slave workers in Germany, the Nazis feared an uprising. They prepared a plan for the Army to handle any such revolt. Echoing Wagner’s Ring, they called it ‘Operation Valkyrie’. The orders provided an ideal framework for a coup.In 1943, Claus von Stauffenberg was initiated into this plan. He modified the orders to facilitate a takeover.He was married, with four children. He felt he could not be a father while turning his back on the moral destruction of his co...
TREASON: Claus von Stauffenberg and the plot to kill Hitler
Send us a textOnce the coup collapsed, the Nazis outdid themselves in their fury. It remained to be seen who would be caught in their net.Some conspirators committed suicide. Some managed to escape.Thousands were rounded up. The Gestapo tortured their victims, placed them on show trials, and hanged them.At their trials before the Nazi ‘People’s Court’, with nothing left to lose, the July plotters proved remarkably difficult to cow.Relatives of conspirators were also arrested and imprisoned.Ni...