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STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. A readable biography of the aristocratic Wehrmacht officer who led the attempt to kill Hitler and overthrow Nazism...
STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. An engrossing biography of the mystical and aristocratic Wehrmacht colonel whose daring attempt to assassinate Hitler with a bomb brought him speedy execution by a Nazi firing squad...
...Roman Catholic, an aristocrat, a family man, and a person of culture in the traditional German romantic, almost mystical mold. His Swabian antecedents were landowners and officials ennobled in Wurttem-berg for services to the state. He was regarded by military men, including a chief of staff of the Wehrmacht, as a "natural commander." Even in intellectual circles, he was recognized as having a peculiar distinction of spirit. His face mirrored both the mystic and the soldier. Although a Catholic, Stauffenberg found an added outlet for his private form of religion in the "circle of Stefan George," named...
...only mildly inconvenienced. Staufenberg, thinking that Hitler had been killed, flew back to Berlin to help di-direct the coup that was to have followed. Before midnight on July 20, he was seized, condemned to death by a ummary court-martial, and executed in the courtyard of the Wehrmacht's headquarters under the glare of headlights from lorries that were driven up to illuminate the scene. As the shots rang out, he uttered one last...
Although the Administration uses words such as "aggression" and "Munich" to evoke emotional support for its policy in Southeast Asia, it readily agrees that there is no oriental Wehrmacht poised to blitz the world. It recognizes that, in conventional terms, China's foreign policy has been militarily very conservative. The Administration does, however, fear that unless it acts decisively in Vietnam, "wars of national liberation"--which it has defined as a new style of "aggression"-- will engulf the underdeveloped world as surely and easily as Hitler's armies rolled across Europe...