Erinnerung

[matrixmann]

Originally posted by matrixmann at Erinnerung

Mythos vom Widerstand.
Graf von Stauffenberg.

Die drohende Niederlage auf allen Fronten und Verlust von persönlichen Privilegien führte zu dem Beschluss, dass die dilettantische Führung liquidiert werden muss.


Myth about resistance.
Graf von Stauffenberg.

The threat of defeat on all fronts and possible loss of personal privileges lead to the decision that the dilettantish acting leader must be liquidated.

Comments

[poliphilo]

So von Stauffenberg wasn't acting selflessly- well, I'm not surprised.


I like the characterisation of Hitler as a dilettante.

[matrixmann]

Judging from Hitler's backgrounds and putting that into the context of that time episode, he really was a dilettante if it came down to politics, even more war strategy.
An unsuccessful painter, at times living like a bum, then an immigrant to the then German state, and later he even was in jail. No special noble bloodline in his back that promises a good upbringing, nor an exceptionally good education...
At times where it was still common for nobles to only occupy high military ranks - and where they also liked to keep that right of theirs up -, well, who the heck was he supposed to be in that net? A nobody technically.
Only he was good for selling shit to people well through his rhetorics and his appearance. Maybe his own will for a certain matter was strong enough so that they'd let him take that position. Like - if you need a certain figure to push an agenda, if a fanatic of the same agenda appears on the horizon who really wants to sell this complex of ideas and images, well, then take him as your front figure. There will even be no problems about authenticity.

In regard to that nobles still having a little special position in social and state hierarchy back then, the sayings about Stauffenberg just make sense.
It is said, him and a few other nobles had property in the East of the Reich then (today Polish territory), and they could foresee that the war is not gonna end in favor for them because the Führer was too stupid in war strategy. He'd bring the Reich to ruin and cost them their precious posessions.
So they'd opt for the idea to get rid of him, turn the course of the war into a more favorable direction for them and so pull their assets out of the fire (so they thought).
In regard to the special position that nobles still had in the military back then, and the thinking that comes with that, it would make good sense.
Lastly the end of the Kaiser's reign, and by that the end of monarchy in a German state, was never a well-received result in state hierarchies... The nobles still kept on thinking "it's our task to control this country!".
The Nazis later even best wanted to reverse this outcome.