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I've wondered about
this. There would have been a moment in time where the
assassination of Adolf Hitler would have conferred upon the assassin a
state of sainthood by the entire world. Infanticide, or even
dispatching him after the attempted beer hall putsch would have been
dismissed today as the work of a nut case, even though the result would
have been most salubrious. Von Stauffenberg was too late in his
failed attempt. I'm sure there were numbers of people who saw what was
coming from these Nazi monsters, so why didn't they act? Fear for
their lives? Fear of the family stain? Maybe the belief
that the German population would come to their senses and vote
the Nazis out of office? Too bad.
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I think most world leaders and Europeans of the time just wanted to see if he could pull it off.
ReplyDeleteThe greatest Christian theologian of the 20th century, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was a key figure in a plot to whack Adolph.
ReplyDeleteAs Dietrich once said, all you need is love, a little well-placed TNT, and a reliable timer.
God will provide.
at 1st glance that looked like friggin Howard Dean. same diff.
ReplyDeleteWhack a mulla a day keeps Armegeddon away. Works for me anyhow.
ReplyDeletetonto goldstein
Several German generals saw that Hitler was going to lead them into a war they could not possibly win and made plans to arrest him (see William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) but always made some excuse not to go through with it.
ReplyDeleteNo balls, no peace.